A43343:66
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
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.
This is contention with a witness— which aims at no less than the ruin of ⟨p. 19⟩the person contended with in the dearest of his secular interests, to beat out his brains, because his head is not exactly of our size.