A43343:52
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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Some quarrels of this kind were the Schisms here spoken of.
3. The word is used, 1 Cor. 12. 25. That there be no Schism in the Body. The Apostle is there carrying on a Metaphor betwixt the Natural Body, and the Church, and this clause clearly relates to the Natural Body, for he doth not come to the Reddition of the comparison till v. 27.
3. The word is us'd, 1 Cor. 12. 25. That there be no Schism in the Body. The Apostle is there carrying on a Metaphor betwixt the Natural Body, and the Church, and this clause clearly relates to the Natural Body, for he doth not come to the Reddition of the comparison till v. 27.
Now what he means by the Schism in the body is plain from the Antithesis in the following words—but that the members should have the same care one for another, So that when the members care not one for another, when the Eye saith to the hand, I have no need of thee, v. 21. When there is not a sympathy and fellow-feeling among Christians v. 26. here's Schism.