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

Secondly, Let us be so impartial as to remember, how far some have spoken to their sense, who have been of most veneration in the Church. I instance but in two: First, The wise and ancient Britain, Gildas, who saith no less, than, Apparet ergo eum qui vos sacerdotes sciens ex corde dicit, non esse eximium Christianum: Sane quod sentio proferam— O inimici Dei & non sacerdotes! O licitatores malorum, & non pontifices! traditores, & non sanctorum Apostolorum successors • impugnatores, & non Christi ministri!—Sed quomodo vos aliquid solvetis, ut sit solutum & in coelis, a coelo ob scelera adempti, & immanium ⟨p. 313⟩peccatorum sun•bus compediti? &c. If the Author of these words •e Venerable, account not the speakers of such like now, to be utterly intolerable.

Secondly, Let us be so impartial as to remember, how far some have spoken to their sense, who have been of most veneration in the Church. I instance but in two: First, The wise and ancient Britain, Gildas, who saith no less, than, Apparet ergo eum qui vos sacerdotes sciens ex corde dicit, non esse eximium Christianum: Sane quod sentio proferam— O inimici Dei & non sacerdotes! O licitatores malorum, & non pontifices! traditores, & non sanctorum Apostolorum successores • impugnatores, & non Christi ministri!—Sed quomodo vos aliquid solvetis, ut sit solutum & in coelis, a coelo ob scelera adempti, & immanium ⟨p. 313⟩peccatorum sun•bus compediti? &c. If the Author of these words •e Venerable, account not the speakers of such like now, to be utterly intollerable.

The second is St. Martin, whose story out of Sulpitius Severus, I have afterwards abbreviated. If a Sainted Bishop most famous for miracles, pretend to Angelical Revelation for so much as is there mentioned; let us be charitable and patient to those tender conscionable Christians, who mistakingly go in such like ways.