The dangerous schismatic clearly detected and fully confuted for the saving of a distracted…The dangerous schismatick clearly detected and fully confuted for the saving of a distracted…

At Wal•all in Sta•ford-shire, Mr. Lapthorne (known to me in his lusty age) who had been a Non-conformist, but thought it an honour to be converted by a King, and gloried that King James in conference changed him; but being as rustic a thunderer as Father Latimer and more, he was wont to let fly without much fear; one Mr. Martin in the Parish accounted the greatest enemy to Puritans, when he heard what he liked not, would go out of Church; one day (in a path way where Mr. Lane had rode a little before) ⟨p. 33⟩pelting Crabs with a pole, the ground opened and swallowed him and his pole, that they could never be found (being a Cole-mine long on fire:) ever after that, when any one would go out of Church at a blustering passage, Mr. Lapthorne would call to him, Remember Martin; Query, Whether all these were separating Schismatics?

At Wal•all in Sta•ford-shire, Mr. Lapthorne (known to me in his lusty age) who had been a Non-conformist, but thought it an honour to be converted by a King, and gloried that King James in conference changed him; but being as rustick a thunderer as Father Latimer and more, he was wont to let fly without much fear; one Mr. Martin in the Parish accounted the greatest enemy to Puritans, when he heard what he liked not, would goe out of Church; one day (in a path way where Mr. Lane had rode a little before) ⟨p. 33⟩pelting Crabs with a pole, the ground opened and swallowed him and his pole, that they could never be found (being a Cole-mine long on fire:) ever after that, when any one would goe out of Church at a blustering passage, Mr. Lapthorne would call to him, Remember Martin; Quere, Whether all these were separating Schismaticks?

But this is too far off: In Dunstans West, where Dr. Sherlock Preacheth, when I was licensed twenty years ago, at Christmas, as I was Preaching, some Lime or Stone fell down in the Steeple with the crowd, the Church being old and under suspicion, they all thought it was falling, and most ran out in tumult, and some cast themselves headlong from the Gallery for hast; when they were quieted and came in again, the Boys in the Chancel broke a Wainscot Screen with climbing on it, and the noise made them run out again; one old woman going out, cried, It's just with God because I took not the first warning, Lord forgive me, and I'll never come again: Query, Whether these, or at least this resolving Woman was a Schismatic, and separated from the Catholic Church?