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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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3. If this be Schism, then there may be Schism, where there's no separation of Communion, that's plain from the instance of the Corinthians who came together into one place and yet are blamed for being Schismatical; bringing people to one place will never cure a Schism, till they are brought to be of one accord.
3. If this be Schism, then there may be Schism, where there's no separation of Communion, that's plain from the instance of the Corinthians who came together into one place and yet are blam'd for being Schismatical; bringing people to one place will never cure a Schism, till they are brought to be of one accord.
You may bind the Leopard and lay ⟨p. 23⟩him down by the Lamb, and yet the enmity remain as great as ever, except there be an inward change.
A quarrel about little things may likewise be Schismatical on one side, and yet not on 'tother; Jeremiah was a man of strife and contention, Jer. 15. 10. i. e. A man striven and contended with, and yet no Schismatic, though ordinarily (as it is commonly said of domestic differences) there's fault more or less on both sides.
A quarrel about little things may likewise be Schismatical on one side, and yet not on 'tother; Jeremiah was a man of strife and contention, Jer. 15. 10. i. e. A man striven and contended with, and yet no Schismatick, though ordinarily (as it is commonly said of domestick differences) there's fault more or less on both sides.