A discourse of schism

7thly. Schismatical Separation is not only from a particular Church, but from the Catholic one. It is a memorable Passage of the Reverend Usher, whose words I shall transcribe. Neither particular Persons, ¹nor particular Churches, are to work as several divided Bodies by themselves (which is the ground of all Schism) but are to teach, and to be taught, and to do all other Christian Duties, as parts conjoined to the whole, and Members of the same Commonwealth or Corporation. The Excellent Davenant, ²in his Rules for Peace, saith, Proscindi nec debent nec possunt à communione particularium Ecclesiarum, quae manent conjunctae cum Ecclesiâ Catholicâ; Those may not be cut off from communion with particular Churches, who remain joined to the Catholic ⟨p. 102⟩Church. I may add, Those may not be esteemed Schismatics by any particular Church, who are in conjunction with the Universal. Schismatical Separation is not only from a particular Church, but from the Universal. And is it thus with the Nonconformists? Do they separate from the Church-Catholic? I take it they do not; and for this I shall lay down two or three things.

7thly. Schismatical Separation is not only from a particular Church, but from the Catholick one. It is a memorable Passage of the Reverend Ʋsher, whose words I shall transcribe. Neither particular Persons, ¹nor particular Churches, are to work as several divided Bodies by themselves (which is the ground of all Schism) but are to teach, and to be taught, and to do all other Christian Duties, as parts conjoined to the whole, and Members of the same Commonwealth or Corporation. The Excellent Davenant, ²in his Rules for Peace, saith, Proscindi nec debent nec possunt à communione particularium Ecclesiarum, quae manent conjunctae cum Ecclesiâ Catholicâ; Those may not be cut off from communion with particular Churches, who remain joined to the Catholick ⟨p. 102⟩