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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.
47. If any part of all this be Schism, Mr. Dodwell ad this man seem to teach Separation from the Church of England: Or if the late silencing, hunting and ruining of two thousand Ministers were Schism, and as bad as Bishop Taylor in Duct. Dubit. Mr. Hales of Eaton, Chillingworth, &c. say of the like, then these men make all the Church of England to be in as damnable a State as Adulterers and Murderers. Yea they make all damnable Schismatics that hold Communion with the Church of England; for that is their Sentence on them that communicate with Schismatics; viz. that they are guilty of their Schism.
47. If any part of all this be Schism, Mr. Dodwell ad this man seem to teach Separation from the Church of England: Or if the late silencing, hunting and ruining of two thousand Ministers were Schism, and as bad as Bishop Taylor in Duct. Dubit. Mr. Hales of Eaton, Chillingworth, &c. say of the like, then these men make all the Church of England to be in as damnable a State as Adulterers and Murderers. Yea they make all damnable Schismaticks that hold Communion with the Church of England; for that is their Sentence on them that communicate with Schismaticks; viz. that they are guilty of their Schism.
48. They unchurch and damn the Churches of Corinth, Galatia, Laodicea, Ephesus, Smyrna, &c. in the Apostles days: For the Scripture tells us of many guilty of Schism in all these, and yet the rest communicated with them; for the Scripture speaks more of Schism in a Church, than of Schism or Separation from a Church, Rom. 16. 17. 1 Cor. 1. 10. & 3. 3. & 11. 18. Mat. 12, 25. Luke 12. 52, 53.