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

whereby the Churches peace hath been often marred and her divisions continued, as is clear in those schisms and divisions at Constantinople, first, in ⟨p. 347⟩reference to Chrysostom, and afterward in reference to Ignatius, who, by a faction in the Church, was deposed, really to please the Emperor, whose incestuous marriage he would not approve as they did: therefore I say in the removing of differences, and resolving of duties in reference to union, there is great need of circumspectness in trying and choosing whose counsels are to be laid weight upon; for, all men love not peace, neither seek singly the good of the Church, and want not their own prejudices and grudgings at particular eminent persons, who (where men are not very denied and mortified) will easily steal-in to mar a public good, under pretext of particular respect to the person, whom, by so doing, they stir up. It's marked by Sleydan as the cause of that unreasonable and unnatural division that brake-out and grew in Germany, almost to the undoing of Religion therein, betwixt the Elector of Saxony, and Maurice afterward Elector, that some Counsellors not well-minded to Religion▪ but favourers of the wicked way of Henry, to whom Maurice succeeded, who for that cause had hatred at the Elector and those who were eminent for Reformation, and now having taken on a profession, and insinuated themselves in the counsels and affection of Maurice, and finding some begun matter of dissension in other particulars, did so kindle and foster it, till they brought the division to that height, that one part of the Protestants were engaged with Antichrist and his followers to destroy the other; and yet so closely carried, that the difference was never stated upon the real account, which indeed such did intend. Also men not so nearly concerned in the Churches divisions▪ as suppose they be of another Church, or men not so immediately concerned in the debates thereof, and the effects that follow thereupon; As in that Council of Carthage, they enact that tenderness be used to the Donatists, and means be used to reclaim them; and for that end did acknowledge their Ministers, ⟨p. 348⟩though ordained in a schism, to be Ministers, although the Church of Rome did write otherwayes to them, and did act otherwayes themselves: These would be looked unto. Sometimes also there are a sort of persons who long not for union;