A discourse of schism

There may be a Schism without a Separation, [Greek or Hebrew], a Schism in the body, 1 Cor. 12.25. when there is no schism from it. There was not (for ought I can see) any Separation in the Church of Corinth. Yet the Dissentions there making a breach upon the Communion in Ordinances, did amount to Schism. St. Cyprian saith,¹ That all believers are in one House, The Church, saith he, is unanimit at is hospitium, an House of amity and unanimity, where they sweetly dwell together in the unanimous Worship and Service of God. If a man do not go out of this House, and leave the Unity of it; yet if he make Dissentions there, and disturb that Unity he is guilty of Schism.

There may be a Schism without a Separation, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, a Schism in the body, 1 Cor. 12.25. when there is no schism from it. There was not (for ought I can see) any Separation in the Church of Corinth. Yet the Dissentions there making a breach upon the Communion in Ordinances, did amount to Schism. St. Cyprian saith,¹ That all believers are in one House, The Church, saith he, is unanimit at is hospitium, an House of amity and unanimity, where they sweetly dwell together in the unanimous Worship and Service of God. If a man do not go out of this House, and leave the Unity of it; yet if he make Dissentions there, and disturb that Unity he is guilty of Schism.

1. 1De Unit. Eccl.

Again, There may be a Separation without a Schism. In many Cases one part of a Congregation may depart from the other, and become a Church of it self, and yet there may be no Schism at all. What if it be done in a Congregation too great to meet together, for convenience, and by common consent? This will be no Schism at all. 'Tis but as when Abraham and Lot parted asunder, because the Land was not able to bear them: Or, as when the Hive being too little for the Bees, one part goes away, and dwells by it self in a new Family. What if there be a Law or Canon made to allow such a Separation? It will hardly be called Schism; and yet Church-unity doth not vary as Human Laws and Canons do, for then it might be something or nothing, as men please. If in a Church the foundations of the holy Faith be destroyed, what can the Righteous do? Join they cannot, separate they must. When Eunomius the Arian was made a Bishop,