A brief enquiry into the true nature of schism

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.

Now if this difference of apprehension relate to Worship, or Communion, and the Modes or Terms thereof, these cannot but be a strong inclination to separate in whole or in part according as the difference of apprehension is, for do what we can as long as we are rational