Chapter 23

The defence of your paragraph about communion in one kind is totally deserted by you. I know no other cause of your so doing, but a sense of your incompetency for its defence: seeing you expend words enough about things of less importance. But you please yourself with the commendation of what you had written on this subject in your Fiat as full of Christian reason, convincing reason and sobriety, and how it would have prevailed upon your own judgement, had you been otherwise minded. You seem to dwell far from neighbours, and to be a very easy man to be entreated to what you have a mind to. But you might not have done amiss to have waited a little for the praise of others; this out of your own mouth is not very comely. And I shall only take leave once more to inform you, that an opposition to the institution of Christ, the command of the Apostle, the practice of the primitive church, with the faith and consolation of believers, such as is your paragraph about communion in one kind, whatever overweening thoughts you may have of the product of your own fancy, cannot indeed have any one grain in it, of sobriety or Christian reason.