A discourse of schism

Valentinian would not endure a little drop of Paganish Holy water. We must not dwell in the confines or neighbourhood of Sin. We should put away every shadow of Will-worship, every semblance of an addition to the holy Ordinances, every thing that looks like a conformity to the Romish Church; this were the way to be pure from giving offence to our Brethren.

Moreover, they seem to be against Christian Unity. The first step to that first sin which brought in enmity into the World, was an addition to God's Word. Ye shall not touch it, Gen. 3.3. This was that that divided God's Ancient People the Jews, the Karai adhered to the pure Scripture, but the Tal•udici brought in their Human Traditions, and cried them up as Lux illa •agna, the great Light. The Pharisees would have above the Law their own Ceremonies and Traditions, and so they came to separate and divide ⟨p. 90⟩themselves from others, calling the common people populum terrae, the people of the earth; and saying to Sinners, ne attingas me, touch me not. The Jewish Ceremonies troubled the Galatians, Gal. 1.7. Circumcision ceasing to be Divine any longer, became Concision, renting the Church; and the Doctors that mixed it with the Gospel, were as Dogs, tearing asunder the unity of it. When Victor urged a necessity of conformity in the observation of Easter-day, Irenaeus reproves him for this, tanquam pacis perturbatorem, as […] troubler of the Churches peace; and indeed there was a horrible breach between the Eastern and Western Churches about it. When Images, a mere Human Invention, were brought into the Church, what fierce Contentions were there about it? The Green Emperors, Leo Isaurus, Constantinu• and others, opposing them in the East. And on the other side, the Bishops of Rome, Gregory the Second Gregory the Third, and others stish upholding them in the West. In the Council at Constantinople they were solemnly