Catholic unity, or, The only way to bring us all to be of one…Catholick vnity, or, The only way to bring us all to be of one…

Tell us how many of those in the Biblioth. Patrum were made by Apostle, or General Council, if you can. When Basil the great had set up a new way of singing to God, and made some other changes in worship, the Clergy of Neocesarea were offended with him for the novelty, and told him that none of that was used in Gregory's days: To whom he answers that neither was their own Litany known in Gregory's days, (who yet had lived not 140 years before, and was the famous founder of their Church by miracles.) ⟨p. 347⟩Basil Epist. 63. And Basil added to the Clergy of Neocesara. [But how can you tell that these things were not in use in Gregory's days, when you have kept nothing unchanged which he was used to?] And that you may see his mind in this, he adds [But I pardon all these things, (though God will examine all:) Only let the principal things be kept safe.] If we had changed the Sacraments as the Papists have done, viz. a Commemorative Sacrifice into a Real Sacrifice of Christ himself; the Sacramental Body and blood of Christ into the Real Body and blood; the administration of it in both kinds, into one kind alone, defrauding the people of the cup; the Communion into a private Mass, the people only looking on the Priest, when he receiveth alone himself, &c. I say, had we made such changes as these, they might have called us ⟨p. 348⟩changelings indeed, and have told us of novelties in the worship of God.

Tell us how many of those in the Biblioth. Patrum were made by Apostle, or General Council, if you can. When Basil the great had set up a new way of singing to God, and made some other changes in worship, the Clergy of Neocesarea were offended with him for the novelty, and told him that none of that was used in Gregory's dayes: To whom he answers that neither was their own Letany known in Gregory's dayes, (who yet had lived not 140 years before, and was the famous founder of their Church by miracles.) ⟨p. 347⟩Basil Epist. 63. And Basil added to the Clergie of Neocesara. [But how can you tell that these things were not in use in Gregories daies, when you have kept nothing unchanged which he was used to?] And that you may see his mind in this, he adds [But I pardon all these things, (though God will examine all:) Only let the principal things be kept safe.] If we had changed the Sacraments as the Papists have done, viz. a Commemorative Sacrifice into a Real Sacrifice of Christ himself; the Sacramental Body and blood of Christ into the Real Body and blood; the administration of it in both kinds, into one kind alone, defrauding the people of the cup; the Communion into a private Mass, the people only looking on the Priest, when he receiveth alone himself, &c. I say, had we made such changes as these, they might have called us