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An ANSWER to a Paper called the Schism of the CHURCH of ENGLAND demonstrated, &c.
IT has been the constant Profession of the Church of England, that the Word of God, interpreted by Catholick Tradition and a truly Oecumenical Council, (not a Pa∣triarchal, one of a few Italians in the West) ought to be hearkened to in Matters that concern the Peace and Unity of the Church. And it has been also frequently and learnedly proved by our English Bishops and Divines, that the Points in difference between the Church of England and the Church of Rome, are so far from being Matters of Faith, that they are modern Errors imposed upon the Christian World, besides and contrary to the Determinations of General Councils and Catholick Tradition; so that our dissent about them, from the Ro∣man Church can be by no means accounted Heretical or Schismatical, but all these Arguments urged by the Ox∣ford Paper, will evidently prove that those Bishops, Priests, and Lay-men that set up Altar against Altar, and hold separate Congregations in Opposition to the Church of England, do break the order of Catholick Communion, and are guilty of Schism.