A43343:65
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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Witness that notion which excludes out of the Church, & consequently out of Heaven all those (how orthodox and serious soever they are otherwise) who are not in Prelatical Communion; if no Diocesan Bishops, then no Ministers, no Sacraments, no Church, no Salvation. Which is certainly the most Schismatical notion that ever was broached in the Christian world.
Witness that notion which excludes out of the Church, & consequently out of Heaven all those (how orthodox and serious soever they are otherwise) who are not in Prelatical Communion; if no Diocesan Bishops, then no Ministers, no Sacraments, no Church, no Salvation. Which is certainly the most Schismatical notion that ever was broach'd in the Christian world.
4. Reproaching, reviling, and railing at those who differ from us in little things, is another Schismatical practice: fastening such nick-names upon them, and loading them with such reproaches as carry in them all the odium that malice can infuse into them; dressing them up in Bears-Skins and then baiting them, doing what we can by calumnies, and misrepresentations to alienate the affections of others from them.
4. Reproaching, reviling, and railing at those who differ from us in little things, is another Schismatical practice: fastning such nick-names upon them, and loading them with such reproaches as carry in them all the odium that malice can infuse into them; dressing them up in Bears-Skins and then baiting them, doing what we can by calumnies, and misrepresentations to alienate the affections of others from them.
5. Making, consenting to, approving or executing of Penal Laws against those who differ from us in little things, to punish them for such difference in their Persons, Estates or Liberties is another uncharitable or Schismatical practice.