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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
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Abundance more instances of their Separation, and Damnation, I might add: In a word, I think then Principles are, as I first said, for damning and separating from all men living, for all men living are guilty of some sort and degree of Schism, that is, of Errors, Principles or Practices in which they culpably Violate that Union and Concord that should be among Christians and Churches: Every defect of Christian Love, and every sinful Error, is some degree of such a violation. All Christians differ in as great matters as things indifferent: And no man living knoweth all things Indifferent to be such: And these men distinguish not of Schism, nor will take notice of the necessary distinctions given (in the third Part of the Treatise of Church Concord,) And solutio cont•••• causeth pain: nor do they at all make us understand what sort of Separation it is that they fasten on, but talk of Separation in general, as aforesaid.
Abundance more instances of their Separation, and Damnation, I might adde: In a word, I think then Principles are, as I first said, for damning and separating from all men living, for all men living are guilty of some sort and degree of Schism, that is, of Errours, Principles or Practices in which they culpably Violate that Union and Concord that should be among Christians and Churches: Every defect of Christian Love, and every sinful Errour, is some degree of such a violation. All Christians differ in as great matters as things indifferent: And no man living knoweth all things Indifferent to be such: And these men distinguish not of Schism, nor will take notice of the necessary distinctions given (in the third Part of the Treatise of Church Concord,) And solutio cont•••• causeth pain: nor do they at all make us understand what sort of Separation it is that they fasten on, but talk of Separation in general, as aforesaid.
LXXXVII. They seem to be themselves deceived by the Papists in exposition of Cyprian's, words de Unit. Eccles. Unus est Episcopatus, &c. But they themselves seem to separate from Cyprian as a Schismatic, and consequently ⟨p. 52⟩