The cure of church-divisions, or, Directions for weak Christians to keep them from being…

And secondly, That by Church-dividers, I mean both these and all such whose principles and practises are against that love of a Christian as a Christian, and that forbearance of dissenters, which should be exercised to all the members of Christ; and who fly from the ancient simplicity and primitive terms of Church-communion, and add (as the Papists do) their own little novelties as necessary things.

And secondly, That by Church-dividers, I mean both these and all such whose principles and practises are against that love of a Christian as a Christian, and that forbearance of dissenters, which should be exercised to all the members of Christ; and who fly from the ancient simplicity and primitive terms of Church-communion, and adde (as the Papists do) their own little novelties as necessary things.

And those that do causelessly separate from their ⟨p. 250⟩own lawfully called Pastors; For ubi Episcopus, ibi Ecclesia; where the true Pastor is, there the Church is (what ever place it be that they assemble in) (as Cyprian once said.)

And those that do causlesly separate from their ⟨p. 250⟩own lawfully called Pastors; For ubi Episcopus, ibi Ecclesia; where the true Pastor is, there the Church is (what ever place it be that they assemble in) (as Cyprien once said.)

And lastly, those that are of uncharitable, humorous, peevish, contentious and fiery spirits, and will stir up mutinies and •idings, and causeless divisions in any Church where they come. And truly they that think of the present state of Hartford and some other Churches in New England, (which I will not here make a Narrative of) me thinks should fear Separations, Schisms or Divisions, from o in the Churches called Independent, as much as those of a different Discipline do as to theirs: (if not somewhat more, on several accounts.)