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…

Whatever then, they pretend of Unity, and however they make ⟨p. 58⟩it a note of the true Church (as it is a property of it) that which is like it amongst them, is made up of these two ingredients, subjection to the Pope, either for fear of their lives, or advantage to their livelihood, and a conspiracy for the destruction, and suppression of them, that oppose their interests, wherein they agree like those, who maintained Jerusalem in its last Siege by Titus; they all consented to oppose the Romans, and yet fought out all other things among themselves. That they are not so openly clamorous about the differences at present, as in former Ages, is merely from the pressure of Protestants round about them However, let them at this day silence the Jesuits and Dominicans, especially the Baijans and the Jansenians on the one part, and the Molinists on the other: Take off the Gallican Church from its Schismatical refusal of the Council of Trent; Cause the King of Spain to quit his claim to Sicily, that they need not Excommunicate him every year; compel the Commonwealth of Venice to receive the Jesuits; stop the mouths of the Sorbonists about the Authority of a general Council above the Pope, and of all those, whom opposing the Papal omnipotency they call Politicians; quiet the contest ⟨p. 59⟩of the Franciscans and Dominicans about the Blessed Virgin; burn Bellarmines books, who almost on every Controversy of Ch. Religion gives an account of their intestine divisions, branding some of their opinions as heretical, as that of Medina about Bishops and Presbyters, some as Idolatricall, as that of Thomas about the worship of the Cross with latria, &c. and they may give a better colour to their pretences, then any as yet it wears.

Whatever then, they pretend of Ʋnity, and however they make ⟨p. 58⟩it a note of the true Church (as it is a property of it) that which is like it amongst them, is made up of these two ingredients, subjection to the Pope, either for feare of their lives, or advantage to their livelyhood, and a conspiracy for the destruction, and suppression of them, that oppose their interests, wherein they agree like those, who maintained Hierusalem in its last Siege by Titus; they all consented to oppose the Romans, and yet fought out all other things among themselves. That they are not so openly clamorous about the differences at present, as in former Ages, is meerely from the pressure of Protestants round about them However, let them at this day silence the Jesuits and Dominicans, especially the Baijans and the Jansenians on the one part, and the Molinists on the other: Take off the Gallican Church from its Schismaticall refusall of the Councell of Trent; Cause the King of Spaine to quit his claime to Sicilie, that they need not Excommunicate him every yeare; compell the Commonwealth of Venice to receive the Jesuits; stop the mouths of the Sorbonists about the Authority of a generall Councell above the Pope, and of all those, whom opposing the Papall omnipotency they call Politicians; quiet the contest