A90287:110
A review of the true nature of schism, with a vindication of the Congregational…A review of the true nature of schisme, with a vindication of the Congregationall…
A review of the true nature of schism, with a vindication of the Congregational churches in England, from the imputation thereof unjustly charged on them by Mr D. Cawdrey, preacher of the Word at Billing in Northampton-shire. / By John Owen D.D.A review of the true nature of schisme, with a vindication of the Congregationall churches in England, from the imputation thereof unjustly charged on them by Mr D. Cawdrey, preacher of the Word at Billing in Northampton-shire. / By John Owen D.D.
Oxford: printed by Henry Hall printer to the University for Thomas Robinson, 1657
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Of Independentisme and Donatism.
Of Independentisme and Donatisme.
The Title of our Authors book is, Independency a great Schism, of this chapter that it may be the better known what kind of schism it is, Independentisme is Donatism. Men may give what title they please to their books and chapters, though perhaps few books make good their titles. I am sure this doth not as yet, nisi accusasse sufficiat: Attempts of proof we have not as yet met withal: what this chapter will furnish us withal, we shall now consider. He indeed that shall weigh the title, Independentisme is Donatism, & then casting his eye upon the first lines of the chapter it self, find, that the Reverend Author says, he cannot but acknowledge, that what I plead for the vindication of protestants from the charge of schism in their separation from Rome, as the Catholic church, to be rational, solid, and judicious; will perhaps be at a loss in conjecturing ⟨p. 119⟩how I am like to be dealt withal in the following discourse; a little patience will let him see, that our Author lays more weight upon the Title, then the preface of this chapter; and that with all my fine trappings I am enrolled in the black book of the Donatists: but 1 quod fors feret feramus aequo animo; or as another saith, debemus optare optima, cogitare difficulima, far quaecunque erunt; as the case is fallen out, we must deal with it as we can. 1. He saith; he is not satisfied, that he not only denies the Church of Rome (so called) to be a particular Church, pag. 154. but also affirms it to be no Church at all. That he is not satisfied, with what I affirm of that Synagogue of Satan where he hath his throne, I cannot help it, though I am sorry for it:
THe Title of our Authors book is, Independency a great Schisme, of this chapter that it may be the better known what kind of schisme it is, Independentisme is Donatisme. Men may give what title they please to their books and chapters, though perhaps few books make good their titles. I am sure this doth not as yet, nisi accusasse sufficiat: Attempts of proof we have not as yet met withall: what this chapter will furnish us withall, we shall now consider. He indeed that shall weigh the title, Independentisme is Donatisme, & then casting his eye upon the first lines of the chapter it selfe, find, that the Reverend Author saies, he cannot but acknowledge, that what I plead for the vindication of protestants from the charge of schisme in their separation from Rome, as the Catholick church, to be rationall, solid, and judicious; will perhaps be at a losse in conjecturing