A discourse of schism

and the reason of this is evident, The minds of men are not all alike, or of an equal temper. Some Pious and Learned Men allow of Ceremonies, other Pious and Learned Men cannot receive them: In such a ⟨p. 92⟩case as this,¹ the urging of Uniformity is the loss of Unity. Anselm enquiring whence the various Customs in the Church arose, gives this Answer. Nihil aliud intelligo quam humanorum sensuum diversitates. I know nothing but this, that men have different sentiments of things; that which one man thinks very apt in the Worship of God, that another thinks is not so. When such a necessary thing as Unity is placed in unnecessaries, it is lost; but when it is placed in things like it self, I mean in necessary things, then it is preserved. The Apostles (who as well understood, and as much desired Unity in the Church as any) would lay no other burden on Christians than necessary things, Act. 15.28. St. Paul lays down a great many Unities, One body, one spirit, one hope, one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and father of all. Eph. 4.4, 5, 6. but there is not a word of one Ceremony. Those Bishops took the right course for Unity, who being met together in Council, made a Canon which they called Adiaphoron, ²because they left the observation of ⟨p. 93⟩Easter-day indifferent, as men would themselves. Were indifferent things left in their indifferency, the Unity of the Church would be much greater than it is.

and the reason of this is evident, The minds of men are not all alike, or of an equal temper. Some Pious and Learned Men allow of Ceremonies, other Pious and Learned Men cannot receive them: In such a ⟨p. 92⟩case as this,¹ the urging of Uniformity is the loss of Unity. Anselm enquiring whence the various Customs in the Church arose, gives this Answer. Nihil aliud intelligo quam humanorum sensuum diversitates. I know nothing but this, that men have different sentiments of things; that which one man thinks very apt in the Worship of God, that another thinks is not so. When such a necessary thing as Unity is placed in unnecessaries, it is lost; but when it is placed in things like it self, I mean in necessary things, then it is preserved. The Apostles (who as well understood, and as much desired Unity in the Church as any) would lay no other burthen on Christians than necessary things,