Catholic communion doubly defended by Dr. Owens, vindicator, and Richard Baxter and the state…Catholick communion doubly defended by Dr. Owens, vindicator, and Richard Baxter and the state…

1. One is the great abuse of it by the Ancients, and the mischiefs done by that abuse▪ It calleth for greatest grief to read it, and to feel the fruit of it to this day, which while I have recited out of the Councils and Church-History, many cannot bear it. The case of the Easter Contention in all the Christian World, even in Britain tells it us: The shameful Catalogue of Heretics in Philastrius, yea many in Epiphanius tell it us: So do the Controversies with the Audians, Novatians, Donatists, the Nestorians, Eutychians, Monothelites, the tria Capitula out of Theodorite, Theodore Mops. and Ibas: the Image Controversies, the Corrupti•ol•, and Phantasiasts, and many more such: And since the heat of the Lutherans, (such as Marbachius, Heshasius, Westphalus, Gallus, Ambsdorsius, and lately Calovius, and many still) against the Calvinists; The over-violent usage of the Remonstrants in Holland, the strife at the City of Frankford, between the Conformists, and Nonconformists; the Violences, and Reproaches of Episcopal, Presbyterian, Independents, Erastians, and Anabaptists against each other in England, with the evil means, and long continuance, and woeful effects. The Scots Covenants excluding from their public Union there and here, all the Diocesan Divines and Party, even such as Usher, Morton, Hall, Davenant, &c. These great abuses of over-doers, and dividers, make many charitable men think, that it is best to mention no mens faults at all, save u•ter Enemies.

1. One is the great abuse of it by the Antients, and the mischiefs done by that abuse▪ It calleth for greatest grief to read it, and to feel the fruit of it to this day, which while I have recited out of the Councils and Church-History, many cannot bear it. The case of the Easter Contention in all the Christian World, even in Brittain tells it us: The shameful Catalogue of Hereticks in Philastrius, yea many in Epiphanius tell it us: So do the Controversies with the Audians, Novatians, Donatists, the Nestorians, Eutychians, Monothelites, the tria Capitula out of Theodorite, Theodore Mops. and Ibas: the Image Controversies, the Corrupti•ol•, and Phantasiasts, and many more such: And since the heat of the Lutherans, (such as Marbachius, Heshasius, Westphalus, Gallus, Ambsdorsius, and lately Calovius, and many still) against the Calvinists; The over-violent usage of the Remonstrants in Holland, the strife at the City of Frankford, between the Conformists, and Nonconformists; the Violences, and Reproaches of Episcopal, Presbyterian, Independants, Erastians, and Anabaptists against each other in England, with the evil means, and long continuance, and woful effects. The Scots Covenants excluding from their publick Union there and here, all the Diocesan Divines and Party, even such as Usher, Morton, Hall, Davenant, &c. These great abuses of over-doers, and dividers, make many charitable men think, that it is best to mention no mens faults at all, save uter Enemies.