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AFTER the deuision of the externall communion, all the soule, the forme and essence of the Church rests in one onlie of the socie∣ties, which remaine after the diuision, and not in the others which are no more trulie partes of the Church, but only equiuocallie, euen as when a member is separated from a liuing and sensible Bodie, all
the essence, the Soule, and forme of the creature, remaines in the Bodie, from whence that separation hath bene made, and not in the part that hath bene separated from it, which is noe more a part of the Bodie but equiuocallie and inproperlie. And therefore after the separation of here∣ticks, all the same strength, vigor, and vertue, which was in the Bodie of the Church before the separation, remaines in the part from whence the separation is made, as she that inherits the condition of all, and not in the others; in such sort, as she hath noe lesse force to resist the corruption that the enemie of mankinde would bring in, but contrariwise often∣times more, for as much as the constancie of the Charitie of those which remaine in the Church, is made the more vnited and the more eminent by the separation of the rest according to this sentence of saint PAVLE; There must be heresies that the Good may be manifested. And therefore saint AV∣GVSTINE writes, That the Church makes vse of 〈◊〉〈◊〉 for the approbation of her doctrine; and of schismaticks, for the demonstration of her stedfastnes. And elsewhere; That those that goe forth from the Bodie of the Church are as euili hu∣mors, by whose purgation the Bodie is eased. By meanes whereof his Maiestie ought not to pretend that the alienations of the partes which are sepera∣te from the Bodie of the Church, haue left in her from whom they are seperated, the lesse vigor to resist the enemie of mankinde, and to main∣taine her self vncorrupted, then there was in the whole Bodie before; but contrariwise to presuppose that the same vertue which resided in the whole Bodie, is reunited in the part that succeedes it.
Also it cannot be found, that since the separation of the Roman Church and the Greeke faction quoted by his Maiestie, which is the greatest se∣peration that euer was made, the Roman Church receaued anie doctrine which was not holden by all the Bodie of the Catholike Church when this diuision happened; and noe more till then, since the separation of the Egiptians and Ethiopian Prouinces.