The dying man's testament to the Church of Scotland, or, A treatise concerning scandal…

3. It may arise from different apprehensions about¹ some persons, or from a different manner of doing the same thing, or from the use-making of different persons; As when one would have such a man to be a Minister, another doth not think him worthy; When one doth think such a man deserveth not to be a Minister, and another thinketh that he doth; when such different thoughts about persons, means or manner of doing things, (which are incident to the best of men) are followed with different actings accordingly, and none doth cede to another, then necessarily followeth contention and division▪ So Paul thought John Mark not meet to be taken to the Ministry again in their company, seeing he had left them; Barnabas did think him meet and would have him, whereupon the contention and division followed. ⟨p. 284⟩Often also, we find in the Church-history, that good men have divided upon this, that some would ordain such to be Presbyters or Bishops, whom others did not think worthy of that office; and that some would not condemn persons or writings, which others did condemn: for, learned men often think the condemning of a person or doctrine which is owned by them, or the refusing to condemn a person or doctrine which they do condemn, to be a reflection on them, and that therefore they are engaged to deal with such, as with the principal party: It is marked, that the rise of Chrysostom and Epiphaneus their difference, was, That Chrysostom did not so go alongs in the condemning of Origen, and his writings as the other did; and that some of the Clergy of Constantinople had refused the same: whereupon Epiphaneus began in preaching to inveigh against the other, which came to that height that is said. Also, sometimes some have been too favourable constructers of deluders, as if they had been of some honesty, whereby difference hath grown with others who knew the deceit, As witness the first Divisions that were in Phrygia concerning Montanus, because some being simple, and not knowing that prophecy, in an extraordinary manner, was laid aside by the Lord, did dispute, that possibly there might be some more than an ordinary thing in his way, and that he might through access to God do such things, when as yet they were not infected with his errors: This did breed a schism;

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