Church-history of the government of bishops and their councils abbreviated including the chief part…

Let it be here noted, 1. That this Council confesseth that the Sacrament and visible Communion is not of necessity to salvation: And why not the same of visible Baptism,¹ when it cannot be had on lawful terms? 2. That therefore it is no sinful Separation to refuse such Church-Communion as cannot be had on lawful terms, or but from Heretics, Simoniacs, or Sacrilegious. 3. That this showeth that the Church of Rome hath their Succession oft interrupted: For by the testimony of their most flattering Historians, and of General Councils, many Popes have been Simoniacs; Ergo, saith this Council, Heretics and Infidels; Ergo no Popes: Ergo their Faith failed. 4. That this maketh their Bishops, Priests, and Churches in all their own Kingdoms where Princes have the presenting and investing of Bishops, to be all void and null,² as being Infidels. And that not only among Protestants none should communicate with any Bishops that have their Presentation and Investiture from Kings, but must separate from them as Infidels, but even in Papists Kingdoms they must do the same.

Let it be here noted, 1. That this Council confesseth that the Sacrament and visible Communion is not of necessity to salvation: And why not the same of visible Baptism,¹ when it cannot be had on lawful terms? 2. That therefore it is no sinful Separation to refuse such Church-Communion as cannot be had on lawful terms, or but from Hereticks, Simoniacs, or Sacrilegious. 3. That this sheweth that the Church of Rome hath their Succession oft interrupted: For by the testimony of their most flattering Historians, and of General Councils, many Popes have been Simoniacs; Ergo, saith this Council, Hereticks and Infidels; Ergo no Popes: Ergo their Faith failed. 4. That this maketh their Bishops, Priests, and Churches in all their own Kingdoms where Princes have the presenting and investing of Bishops, to be all void and null,² as being Infidels. And that not only among Protestants none should communicate with any Bishops that have their Presentation and Investiture from Kings, but must separate from them as Infidels, but even in Papists Kingdoms they must do the same.