Which is the true church? the whole Christian world, as headed only by Christ…

6. But what is the proof of this assertion? None at all▪ In other Societies no Union is essential to a member but that which is with the Pars Imperans, or supreme power, and with the body. A man that rejecteth a Justice, or the Mayor of a City, or the Master of a College or School, &c. may be yet a subject, and a member of the Kingdom while he rejecteth not the King, though he be faulty, and be cut off from the City, College or School. And I think that to reject a Parish-priest that ought to be so rejected, is well done: and if he ought not, it's ill done. And that he that separateth from that Parish-Church, may yet be […] member of the Church Universal, while he separateth not from it. But I see that Guiliel▪ de Sancto Amore, and such others, had greater reason to condemn the Friars; and Watson, and such others, the Jesuits, than we knew of.

6. But what is the proof of this assertion? None at all▪ In other Societies no Union is essential to a member but that which is with the Pars Imperans, or supreme power, and with the body. A man that rejecteth a Justice, or the Mayor of a City, or the Master of a Colledg or School, &c. may be yet a subject, and a member of the Kingdom while he rejecteth not the King, though he be faulty, and be cut off from the City, Colledg or School. And I think that to reject a Parish-priest that ought to be so rejected, is well done: and if he ought not, it's ill done. And that he that separateth from that Parish-Church, may yet be 〈…〉 member of the Church Universal, while he separateth not from it. But I see that Guiliel▪ de Sancto Amore, and such others, had greater reason to condemn the Friers; and Watson, and such others, the Jesuits, than we knew of.

I noted also the difficulty▪ How we shall know the Authority of every Parish-Priest, Bishop▪ Archbishop, Patriarch, and Pope. And 1. in a Country where Orders have ordinarily been forged.