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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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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.
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.
4. If this be Schism then there may be Separation of Communion where there is no Schism. For thus we all agree that there may be difference of apprehension, and yet no Schism, provided it do not eat out Christian love, but be managed amicably, as betwixt the Arminians and Calvinists in the Church of England, and divers the like.
4. If this be Schism then there may be Separation of Communion where there is no Schism. For thus we all agree that there may be difference of apprehension, and yet no Schism, provided it do not eat out Christian love, but be manag'd amicably, as betwixt the Arminians and Calvinists in the Church of England, and divers the like.