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But that this might not be an offence, so as to keep us from joining in Communion with the people of God, let us know if this might have been offence enough to keep men from joining with them, it would have kept men in all times from joining with the Churches since Christs time: You know what difference was between Paul and Barnabas, two Apostles. And so the Apostles do complain of the dissentions, and divisions in the Church of Corinth, in the Primitive times, and if that had been enough to keep out men from joining with them, then there had been no joining with the Church of Corinth, and other Churches. Basil complains, I have lived now to the age of a man, and I see more union in Arts and Sciences, then in Divinity; for in the Church, I see such dissentions, as do dissipate it, and rend it asunder. And so between Chrysostom and Epiphanius, the one wished the other might never dye a Bishop, and the other wished that he might never go home alive. And between Jerome and Ruffinus; and Luther and Oecolampadius.

But that this might not be an offence, so as to keep us from joyning in Communion with the people of God, let us know if this might have been offence enough to keep men from joyning with them, it would have kept men in all times from joyning with the Churches since Christs time: You know what difference was between Paul and Barnabas, two Apostles. And so the Apostles do complain of the dissentions, and divisions in the Church of Corinth, in the Primitive times, and if that had been enough to keep out men from joyning with them, then there had been no joyning with the Church of Corinth, and other Churches. Basil complains, I have lived now to the age of a man, and I see more union in Arts and Sciences, then in Divinity; for in the Church, I see such dissentions, as do dissipate it, and rend it asunder. And so between Chrysostom and Epiphanius, the one wished the other might never dye a Bishop, and the other wished that he might never go home alive. And between Jerome and Ruffinus; and Luther and Oecolampadius.

There is a most sad story we have of those that fled to Frankford from England in Queen Mary's time, and when they came there, though they fled for Religion, and for their lives, yet there were such grievous breaches, as they sought the lives of one another, picking out some words against the Emperor, in a Sermon that Master Knox had preached in England long before, and now accusing him for them to the Magistrates of Frankford, upon which divers of them were fain to flee. This is through the malice of the Devil, in sowing tares, and therefore if you will be offended in this way of scandal, you must be offended