A27028:130
Schism detected in both extremes, or, Two sorts of sinful separation the first part…Schism detected in both extreams, or, Two sorts of sinful separation the first part…
Schism detected in both extremes, or, Two sorts of sinful separation the first part detecteth the schismatical principles of a resolver of three cases about church-communion, the second part confuteth the separation pleaded for in a book famed to be written by Mr. Raphson.Schism detected in both extreams, or, Two sorts of sinful separation the first part detecteth the schismatical principles of a resolver of three cases about church-communion, the second part confuteth the separation pleaded for in a book famed to be written by Mr. Raphson.
London: printed for Tho. Parkhurst, 1684
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.
A. Why may not the Greeks; Dutch and French live in Communion with the Churches London though they live dispersedly among them! In Brandenburg, Hassia, and many free Cities, and Belgia, where Lutherans and Calvinists (as called) live together, and own each other as Brethren, why may not both be Churches of Christ?
§. 20. P. 21, 22. A great deal more he hath of the like, making Schismatics at his Pleasure. [This is plain in the Case of the Presbyterian and Independent Churches and those other Conventicles—They are Churches in a Church,— Nothing can justify the Distinction of Christians into several Churches, but only such a distance of place as makes it necessary, &c. p. 22. Distinct Churches in the same place can never be under the same Communion.
§. 20. P. 21, 22. A great deal more he hath of the like, making Schismaticks at his Pleasure. [This is plain in the Case of the Presbyterian and Independent Churches and those other Conventicles—They are Churches in a Church,— Nothing can justifie the Distinction of Christians into several Churches, but only such a distance of place as makes it necessary, &c. p. 22. Distinct Churches in the same place can never be under the same Communion.
A. These things are repeated so oft, and the word [separate] so deceitfully rolled over and over, that I will answer all together under his third Case at the End.