The Royal remembrancer, or, A Healing letter with arguments and reasons, to the Presbyterians…

Many more Testimonies, in the Holy Bible, may be produced of Faction, Treachery, Treason and Rebellion: Histories both Sacred and Profane, afford us many Relations of this Nature; wherein has been recorded not only the perverseness, and perjury of Infidels, but also of Christians, yea of good and believing Christians (of all Ranks and degrees) unto Lawful Authority; And this indeed is the drift I aim at, that it may not seem wonderful unto us, to see men otherwise very Good, Religious, and Conscientious engaged in Faction, and infected with Schism; the one pernicious to Civil Societies, the other to Ecclesiastical; and indeed, what the one is to the State, the other is to the Church: Among these very Corinthians, whom St. Paul affirmed to be Saints, sanctified in Christ Jesus, to have received the Grace of God, to have been enriched by God in all knowledge, to have been called unto the fellowship of Jesus Christ our Lord, among ⟨p. 5⟩those (I say) were found Schisms, Strifes, Envyings, Divisions, and Factions: while one boasted to be of Paul, another of Apollo, another of Cephas, and another of Christ as if Christ had been divided: And although I do not peremptorily charge that great Apostle St. Peter as a Schismatic, yet may I as a Temporizer, one who through fear, and cowardice, did separate himself for a time from Communion with the Gentiles, because of the circumcised Jews; twice through fear did St. Peter offend; with him at this time did Barnabas, and divers Jews also dissemble, so as to withdraw from converse with the Gentiles, upon which they were justly taxed by St. Paul for not walking uprightly according to the Truth of the Gospel: And did not their Separation upon this account almost amount unto a Schism? And now I will not wonder at the Temporizing, or Time-serving; yea, or at the Schism of a Presbyterian Moderator: Little reason has he to wrangle at that Translation, Be fervent in Spirit, applying your selves unto the Time; I only affirm, that Good and religious men have sometimes been Rebels, and Schismatics, through the darkness and ignorance of their Understanding; and through the obstinacy and perverseness of their own Wills. This Consideration calls for deep Humiliation, and serious Repentance from those amongst us, who have made great profession of Religion;

Many more Testimonies, in the Holy Bible, may be ppoduced of Faction, Treachery, Treason and Rebellion: Historyes both Sacred and Prophane, afford us many Relations of this Nature; wherein has been recorded not onely the perversness, and perjury of Infidels, but also of Christians, yea of good and believing Christians (of all Ranks and degrees) unto Lawful Authority; And this indeed is the drift I aim at, that it may not seem wonderful unto us, to see men otherwise very Good, Religious, and Conscientious engaged in Faction, and infected with Schism; the one pernitious to Civil Societies, the other to Ecclesiastical; and indeed, what the one is to the State, the other is to the Church: Among these very Corinthians, whom St. Paul affirmed to be Saints, santified in Christ Iesus, to have received the Grace of God, to have been enriched by God in all knowledge, to have been called unto the fellowship of Jesus Christ our Lord, among