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…

LXXVII. 27. Yea if I should think that self-Interest and self-Government bind me rather to choose a Pastor for my self, than to stand to such a choice by Prince, Patron or Prelate, which I think intolerable, as well as (against their will) I may choose a Wife, or a Physician, or a Tutor, or a Book, or ⟨p. 39⟩my daily food, this is not separating from the Universal Church.

LXXVIII. 28. If owning the same Diocesan make them of one Church who differ more than Nonconformists and Conformists do, then owning the same Christ, Faith, Scripture, &c. maketh them of one Catholic Church who differ less. But, &c. Jesuits, Dominicans, Jansenists, and all the Sects of Papists are taken for one Church, because they own the Pope and Councils. In England the Diocesan Conformists are taken for one Church, though some of them are as much for a Foreign Jurisdiction, as Arch-bishop Laud, Arch-bishop Bromhall, Bishop Gunnings Chaplain, Dr. Saywell, Mr. Thorndike, Dr. Heylin, and many more, have manifested in their words and writings. And some that subscribe the Articles of General Councils erring in Faith and against Heathens Salvation, and against free will, and for Justification by Faith only, &c. do show that they differ in the Doctrines of Religion, (unless the sound or syllables be its Religion) while one and another take the words in contrary senses. Some are for Diocesans being a distinct Order from Presbyters, some (as Usher and many such) deny it: Some hold them to be of Divine Right, and some but of humane; some think the King must choose them, some rather the Clergy and People; some hold them Independent, others rather subject to the Arch-bishops and Convocation; some think all that bear Office in their Church Government are lawful, others think Lay-Civilians Government by the Keys unlawful (and so are ipso facto excommunicate by their own Canons;) some that promise Canonical Obedience to their Ordinary, take the Judges of the Ecclesiastical Courts for their Ordinaries; and others only the Bishops; some think they are sworn to obey their Ordinaries, if they rule according to the Canons (and so to pronounce all Excommunicate that the Canon excommunicates, if commanded;) Others think otherwise, that they are judges themselves whether the Canons command licita & honesta; some take the Pope to be Antichrist, and the Church of Rome no true Church; others think otherwise. Many more (Arminian and other) such differences there are, and yet all of one Church, both Catholic, National, Diocesan and Parochial (oft:) Much more are those Nonconformists that differ from the Church in nothing but what the Imposers call Indifferent.