Answ. You slander. Her Discipline and Doctrines were the same then, that they had been in all precedent ages. Did the Church perish (saith S. Augustine to the Donatists) or did she not? If she did, what Church then brought forth the Donatists? (or the Protestants?) If she did not, what madness moved you to separate your selves from her, on pretence of avoiding the communion of bad men? l. 1. cont. Gaudent. c. 7. And again; We are certain no man can justly separate himself from the communion of all Na∣tions, (yet Martin Luther and Mr. Tyndall did it) Epist. 48. And in another place; All separation made before the drawing the n••t on the shore (at the day of judgment) is damnable, and the sacriledge of schism, which sur∣passeth all other crimes. L. 2. cont. Epist. Parmen.
Ob. We did but separate from the particu∣lar Church of Rome. Therefore not from the whole Church.
Answ. I told you in the question of the Churchs Universality in what sense the Church of Rome is Universal or Catholique, and in what sense she is particular, take it in which acception you will, your consequence is false, for whosoever separates from an acknowledg∣ed tr•••• member of the Catholique Church (and such the Church of Rome then was in her particular) he consequently separates from the whole, and is an heretike, or schisma∣tike.