A discourse of schism

Magna Charta gives unto the Church omnia sua jura integra, & libertates illaesas. Should a Judge tell Ecclesiastical Persons, that they should have all their Rights and Liberties, but upon a Condition of his own devising; who would not conclude that the great Charter was inverted? In all these Instances it is not material, whether the Condition be added to the thing in writing, and so embodied with it, or whether it be added to it by practical use; in both cases it inverts ⟨p. 81⟩the thing to which it is added. Now the Gospel is the Grant, Covenant, Testament, Law of our Lord Jesus Christ: In and by it he makes over Ordinances freely, absolutely, to all that will come to them. If men put in their own Conditions, and say, you shall have Sacraments, but upon these or those terms, which are unnecessary and unrequired by Christ, the Gospel is inverted, and made another thing than it was; an absolute free gift is one thing, and a limited conditional one is another. The first is the Gospel in its purity, as it comes from the hands of Christ; the last is the Gospel with a mixture, as it is inverted by men. Neither is it material, whether that which is added be a great thing, or a little; a little thing, if added as a Condition, inverts it; because it turns an absolute free disposition into a conditional one. I conclude with that of St. Chrysostom upon that Text, Gal. 1.7.¹ They subvert the Gospel who bring in, [Greek or Hebrew], paululum quiddam, any little new thing into it; that is, if it be brought in as necessary ⟨p. 82⟩to Salvation, or as a Condition to any Ordinance of the Gospel.

Magna Charta gives unto the Church omnia sua jura integra, & libertates illaesas. Should a Judge tell Ecclesiastical Persons, that they should have all their Rights and Liberties, but upon a Condition of his own devising; who would not conclude that the great Charter was inverted? In all these Instances it is not material, whether the Condition be added to the thing in writing, and so imbodied with it, or whether it be added to it by practical use; in both cases it inverts ⟨p. 81⟩