Here then being the principal foundation (if it hath any) of that great Fabric about Schism, 1which in latter Ages hath been set up, it must be duly con•••ered; ⟨p. 26⟩that if it be possible, we may discover by what secret engines or Artifices the discourses about it, which fill the world, have been hence deduced, being for the most part, universally unlike the thing here mentioned: or find out, that they are built on certain prejudices and presumptions, nothing relating thereto. The Church of Corinth was founded by Paul Act. 18. 8, 9, 10. with him there was Aquila and Priscilla v. 2, 18. After his departure, Apollos came thither, & effectually watered, what he had planted 1 Ep. cap. 3. 6. It is probable that either Peter had been there also, or at least that sundry persons converted by him were come thither, for he still mentions Cephas and Apollo with himself cap. 1. 12. & 3. 22. This Church thus watered and planted came together for the worship of God [Greek or Hebrew] cap. 11. 20. and for the administration of Discipline in particular, cap. 5. 4. After a while through the craft of Satan, various evils in Doctrine, Conversation, and Church-order crept in amongst them; For Doctrine, besides their mistake about eating things offered to Idols cap. 8. 4. some of them denied the Resurrection of the Dead, cap. 15. 12. In Conversation they had not only the eruption of a scandalous particular sin amongst ⟨p. 27⟩them cap. 5. 1. but grievous sinful miscarriages, when they came together about holy Administrations cap. 11. 21. these the Apostle distinctly reproves in them: their Church-order, as to that Love, peace, and union of heart and mind, wherein they ought to have walked, was woefully disturbed with divisions and sidings about their Teachers, cap. 1. 12. And not content to make this difference the matter of their debates and disputes from house to house, even when they met for public worship, or that which they all met in, and for, they were divided on that account cap. 11. 18. This was their Schism the Apostle dehorts them from, charges them with, and shows them the evil thereof. They had differences amongst themselves about unnecessary things; on these they engaged into disputes and sidings, even in their solemn Assemblies; when they came all together for the same worship about which they differed not.
Here then being the principall foundation (if it hath any) of that great Fabrick about Schisme, 1which in latter Ages hath been set up, it must be duly con•••ered; ⟨p. 26⟩that if it be possible, we may discover by what secret engines or Artifices the discourses about it, which fill the world, have been hence deduced, being for the most part, universally unlike the thing here mentioned: or find out, that they are built on certaine prejudices and presumptions, nothing relating thereto. The Church of Corinth was founded by Paul Act. 18. 8, 9, 10. with him there was Aquila and Priscilla v. 2, 18. After his departure, Apollos came thither, & effectually watered, what he had planted 1 Ep. cap. 3. 6. It is probable that either Peter had been there also, or at least that sundry persons converted by him were come thither, for he still mentions Cephas and Apollo with himselfe cap. 1. 12. & 3. 22. This Church thus watered and planted came together for the worship of God 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 cap. 11. 20. and for the administration of Discipline in particular, cap. 5. 4. After a while through the craft of Sathan, various evills in Doctrine, Conversation, and Church-order crept in amongst them; For Doctrine, besides their mistake about eating things offered to Idols cap. 8. 4. some of them denyed the Resurrection of the Dead, cap. 15. 12. In Conversation they had not only the eruption of a scandalous particular sinne amongst ⟨p. 27⟩them cap. 5. 1. but grievous sinfull miscarriages, when they came together about holy Administrations cap. 11. 21. these the Apostle distinctly reproves in them: their Church-order, as to that Love, peace, and union of heart and minde, wherein they ought to have walked, was woefully disturbed with divisions and sidings about their Teachers, cap. 1. 12. And not content to make this difference the matter of their debates and disputes from house to house, even when they met for publick worship, or that which they all met in, and for, they were divided on that account cap. 11. 18. This was their Schisme the Apostle dehorts them from, charges them with, and shewes them the evill thereof. They had differences amongst themselves about unnecessary things; on these they ingaged into disputes and sidings, even in their solemne Assemblyes; when they came all together for the same worship about which they differed not.
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