§. 20.
These irrefragable grounds from Prudence and Scripture have we Catholics for directing our Faith: On the other side, not one single Text of Scripture, nay moreover, not one quotation can be pro∣duced out of any one of the holy Fathers, which may rationally in∣courage a Christian to prefer his own sence of Scripture before that of the Church; whereas whole Books have been written by them of the Churches unity, authority, indefectibility and universality. Now Sir, who can resist, who can hold out against such a Battery?
Well Sir, how prevalent soever this Discourse may seem to you to be against us, whom you style Schismatics, it will prove of lit∣tle advantage to you Roman Catholics; for although we grant, that there is but one Catholic Church, out of which there is no Salvation, yet this does not prove the Roman to be this Church: the Roman, I say, which is but a particular Church, and she being (as we are perswad∣ed) guilty of teaching and practising many false Doctrines, and ma∣nifold Superstitions and Idolatry, we cannot with a safe conscience have any communion with her.