A defence of the principles of love, which are necessary to the unity and…

13. Nor is it the Question, [Whether you must needs hold Communion with those individual Bishops, whom you account the Persecutors, and Causes of our silence and confusions. I have told you in the Story of Martin, how he separated from the Synods of th•se individual Bishops, and from their local Communion, without separating from the Office, the Churches, or from any other Bishops. This is a matter that I did not meddle with, because it is not their Communion that you are called to, but the Parish Churches.

Indeed to save m•ns lives, he did yield to the Emperor once to communicate with them; But (saith Sulp. Severus •i•l. 3. p. Bib. Pa•. 254. Summa vi Episcopis nitentibus, ut communionem ill•m subscription firmaret, extorqueri non potuit. And the Angel that appeared to him said [Merito Martine compungeris; sed aliter exi•e nequi•ti: repara virtutem, resume Constantiam, n• jam non periculum gloriae sed salutis incu•reris. Ita; ab illo tempore satis cavit, cum illa I•ha•ianae partis Communion mis••ri. And after finding his power of Miracles abated, with tears he confessed ⟨p. 77⟩to Sulpit. That propter Communionis illius malum, cui se vel puncto temporis, necessitate, non Spiritu mis••isset, d•trimentum s•etire virtutis. Sdim psea vixit annos, nullam Synodum adiit, ab omnibus Episcporum Conveibus see rem vit. But this was only from those Bishops who by provoking Magistrates against the Priscillian Gnostics, had brought all strict Religious people under scorn. But he separated not from any others.