A43343:30
A brief enquiry into the true nature of schism
A brief enquiry into the true nature of schism: or a persuasive to Christian love and charity. Humbly submitted to better judgments; by M.H. Licensed Jan. 8. 1689/90
London: printed for Tho. Parkhurst, 1690
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But the evil of it lies not in the diversity, but in the erroneousness and danger of the opinion.
I cannot believe that the greatest worshippers of the Diana of their own opinions, will be so sottish as to brand those for Schismatics who in every punctilio of Opinion are not exactly of the same Standard with themselves.
I cannot believe that the greatest worshipers of the Diana of their own opinions, will be so sottish as to brand those for Schismaticks who in every punctilio of Opinion are not exactly of the same Standard with themselves.
If there be any so strangely rigid, Let not my Soul come into their secret, for I despair to see even all the Saints of a mind in every thing till they come to Heaven.
It doth therefore evidence too great a strangeness to the Spirit of the Gospel, to condemn all those who differ from us only in their apprehensions about little things. John's Disciples were hugely displeased because Christ's Disciples did not fast so often as they did, and quarrelled with Christ himself about it, ⟨p. 9⟩