A26965:167
The nonconformists plea for peace, or, An account of their judgment in certain things…
The nonconformists plea for peace, or, An account of their judgment in certain things in which they are misunderstood written to reconcile and pacify such as by mistaking them hinder love and concord / by Richard Baxter.The nonconformists plea for peace, or, An account of their judgment in certain things in which they are misunderstood written to reconcile and pacifie such as by mistaking them hinder love and concord / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for Benj. Alsop, 1679
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
XIII. 11. When men erroneously and causelessly gather separated Members from true Churches where they should continue, into Antichurches, or Societies, where their business is to make others unjustly odious that differ from them; this is to gather Schismatical Societies: And if they pretend themselves wiser than the Generality of the true Orthodox Churches in the world, and so separate from them, they were for this called Heretics at first: But if it be but upon a quarrel with some particular neighbour Church or Pastor it was called a Schism.
XIII. 11. When men erroneously and causlesly gather separated Members from true Churches where they should continue, into Antichurches, or Societies, where their business is to make others unjustly odious that differ from them; this is to gather Schismatical Societies: And if they pretend themselves wiser than the Generality of the true Orthodox Churches in the world, and so separate from them, they were for this called Hereticks at first: But if it be but upon a quarrel with some particular neighbour Church or Pastor it was called a Schism.
XIV. 12. If any proud, or passionate, or erroneous person do, as Diotrephes, cast out the brethren undeservedly, by unjust suspensions, silencings, or excommunications, it is tyrannical Schism, what better name soever cloak it.
XV. 13. If any should make sinful terms of Communion, by Laws, or Mandates, imposing things forbidden by God, on those that will have ⟨p. 42⟩Communion with them, and expelling those that will not so sin, this were heinous Schism: And the further those Laws extend, and the more Ministers or People are cast out by them, the greater is the Schism.