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

7. Men would endeavour all this with tenderness¹ and respect to mens persons, actions and qualifications; for, oftentimes the rise of a division, is in the alienation of affections between some persons; which ⟨p. 340⟩afterward disposeth to construct hardly both of their opinions and actions: and indeed often the stick is here, that mens affections are not satisfied one with another, and that maketh them that they do not trust each other: Hence we see, that in the Scripture, the commending of love, and of honouring and preferring of others in honour to our selves, is ordinarily subjoined to the exhortations to union, or reproofs of division, as, Philip. 2. Eph. 4. Matth. 18, &c. And we see in the primitive times▪ when no mean could cure schisms, one party showing respect to another, or to some eminent head of the opposite party, (it may be even after their death) did alley the same, and engage these that formerly shunned communion, to join with them. It is particularly observed, That when at Constantinople some had continued separated from the Bishops government, and the Church thereof, after Chrysostom's deposition, for the space of thirty five years, and were called Johanits; yet Proclus, who by some interval succeeded in that See, by recording Chrysostom's name amongst eminent persons, and making honourable mention of him, and bringing his body from the place where it was buried in his exile, and burying it honourably at Constantinople in the great Church of the holy Apostles, did so appease and engage those that had disclaimed all the intervening Bishops, that instantly they did acknowledge him and join with the Church. The like also is mentioned to have been the end of that Schism at Antioch, because of Eustachius his removal from them, when Callaudion the Bishop did return his body honourably to be buried, and went out with his party to receive the same solemnly some miles from the Town; those also, who out of respect to him (to wit Eustachius) had continued separated from the succeeding Bishops for above an hundred years, now seeing the adverse party put respect on him, they also did from that time forth join with them. Both these