§. 111.
And indeed, to deal plainly with you, it was more then you could justly challenge in the present occasion, that I should have the compliance so far, as to attend unto the charges and accusations laid by you against the special Doctrins of the Catholic Church: for such accusations could have no place in an Answer to be made to the Question proposed in the beginning. Indeed if I had now (as may be done another time) precisely imputed Heresie to you, it might have been proper for you to justifie your particular Tenents, and al∣so to recrimimnate. But it was only the Crime of Schism that I laid to the Charge of Protestant Churches, and therefore asked you the Ques∣tion, Why are you a Protestant? Now to this Question, thus intended, no Answer can be proper but such an one by which you shall endea∣vour to demonstrate that the Protestant Church, in whose Communion you live, is not Schismatical, that it is not divided from the Catholic Church which never did nor ever shall fail, and that it has all the Marks which declare a Church to be Catholic. This you have not done: and no wonder, Since you can find no help for such a pur∣pose from any of your Writers. And yet till that can be done, all other Disputes are to no purpose, neither can Catholics be obliged to engage themselves in them: or if they do so, it is only to shew you that, being evidently and confessedly Schismatics, you are also Heretics.