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

Answ. 1. My foregoing words are these, [The Pope hath feigned another thing, and called it the Church, that is, The Universality of Christians headed by himself: Whereas 1. God never instituted or allowed such a Church. 2. Nor did ever the Universality of Christians acknowledge this usurping head.

Now when you say there hath been [such a Church as the Roman] either you mean what I denied [such a Church as they claim and feign] and I described; Or only [such a Church as they are, which is another thing.] If the later, why will you grossly abuse your Reader by such a deceit, which tendeth to tempt him unto Popery? What's that to my words which you seem to contradict? But if you mean the former, and indeed contradict me, then 1. You prevaricate in ⟨p. 33⟩befriending Popery. 2. You here set down three more Untruths in matter of fact; 1▪ That there hath been near 1300 years (or ever was) such a Church; that is, that the¹ Universality of Christians did acknowledge the Pope for the Universal Constitutive and Governing ²Head. 2. That there is none that knoweth ³Church history but can prove this. 3. That they are very unweighed words, in which I assert what I did.

Now when you say there hath been [such a Church as the Romane] either you mean what I denied [such a Church as they claim and feign] and I described; Or only [such a Church as they are, which is another thing.] If the later, why will you grosly abuse your Reader by such a deceit, which tendeth to tempt him unto Poperie? What's that to my words which you seem to contradict? But if you mean the former, and indeed contradict me, then 1. You prevaricate in ⟨p. 33⟩