Of schism the true nature of it discovered and considered, with reference to the…Of schisme the true nature of it discovered and considered, with reference to the…

And whereas it may be supposed,¹ that the great condition of such a grant would consist in his diligent attendance to the Scriptures the Word of God; herein doth the filth of their Abominations appear ⟨p. 183⟩above all other things. The guilt that is in that society or combination of men, in locking up the Scriptures in an unknown tongue, forbidding the people to read it, burning some men to death for the studying of it, and no more, disputing against its power, to make good its own Authority, charging it with obscurity, imperfection, insufficiency, frighting men from the perusal of it, with the danger of being seduced, and made Heretics by so doing, setting up their own Traditions in an equality with it, if not exalting them above it, studying by all means to decry it as useless and contemptible, at least comparatively with themselves, will not be purged from them for ever.²

And whereas it may be supposed,¹ that the great condition of such a grant would consist in his diligent attendance to the Scriptures the Word of God; herein doth the filth of their Abominations appeare ⟨p. 183⟩above all other things. The guilt that is in that society or combination of men, in locking up the Scriptures in an unknown tongue, forbidding the people to read it, burning some men to death for the studying of it, and no more, disputing against its power, to make good its own Authority, charging it with obscurity, imperfection, insufficiency, frighting men from the perusall of it, with the danger of being seduced, and made Hereticks by so doing, setting up their own Traditions in an equality with it, if not exalting them above it, studying by all meanes to decry it as uselesse and contemptible, at least comparatively with themselves, will not be purged from them for ever.²

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