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§. 10. Little do many men, that cry up faith and Orthodoxness and Catholicism and obedience, and cry down Heresy, Schism, Error and Disobedience, ⟨p. 121⟩believe how much guilt lieth on their souls, and without Repentance how terrible it will prove, to be charged with the cruelties which they have used to good Christians, in reproaching them and casting them out of the Church, and destroying them as Heretics and Schismatics, that should have been loved and honoured as Saints. But some men cannot see by the light of the fire, till they come so near it as to be burned.

§. 10. Little do many men, that cry up faith and Orthodoxness and Catholicism and obedience, and cry down Heresie, Schism, Errour and Disobedience, ⟨p. 121⟩believe how much guilt lyeth on their souls, and without Repentance how terrible it will prove, to be charged with the cruelties which they have used to good Christians, in reproaching them and casting them out of the Church, and destroying them as Hereticks and Schismaticks, that should have been loved and honoured as Saints. But some men cannot see by the light of the fire, till they come so near it as to be burned.

§. 11. These self-made or over-doing terms of Church-Union and Concord, will prove the certainest Engines of Schism; And none are so heinous Schismatics, as they that make unnecessary terms of Union, and then call all Schismatics that consent not to them. For 1. these are the Leaders of the disorder, when other sort of Schismatics usually are but followers: 2. These do it by Law, which is of most extensive mischief, even to all that are subject to them, when others do it but by local practice, extending but to those that are about them, or the particular assemblies which they gather. 3. These make the Schism unavoidable, when private Seducers may be resisted: For it is not in the power of good men to bring their judgements to the sentiments of every or any dictator, or yet to go contrary to their judgements. Ilicitum stat pro impossibili. 4. These aggravate the crime by pretending power from God, and fathering Schism on so good a thing as Government, and causing it as for Unity it self. 5. They condemn themselves by crying down Schism, while they unavoidably cause it.