A90287:83
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 what nature that evil is, with what are the aggravations of it, a judgment is to be made, from the pleas and pretences that its circumstances afford: so far as it proceeds from such dissensions as before were mentioned, so far it proceeds ⟨p. 82⟩from schism, but in its own nature absolutely considered it is not so.
of what nature that evill is, with what are the aggravations of it, a judgment is to be made, from the pleas and pretences that its circumstances afford: so farr as it proceeds from such dissensions as before were mentioned, so far it proceeds ⟨p. 82⟩from schisme, but in its own nature absolutely considered it is not so.
To render my former assertions the more unquestionably evident, I consider the several accounts given of mens blameable departures' from any Church, or Churches mentioned in Scripture, and manifest that none of them come under the head of Schism. Apostasy, irregularly of walking, and professed sensuality, are the heads, whereunto all blameable departures from the Churches in the Scripture are referred.
To render my former assertions the more unquestionably evident, I consider the severall accounts given of mens blameable departures' from any Church, or Churches mentioned in Scripture, and manifest that none of them come under the head of Schisme. Apostasy, irregularly of walking, and professed sensuality, are the heads, whereunto all blameable departures from the Churches in the Scripture are referred.
That there are other accounts of this crime, our Author doth not assert; he only says, that all, or some of the places I produce, as instances of a blameable separation from a Church, do mind the nature of Schism as precedaneous to the separation; What ere the matter is I do not find him speaking so faintly and with so much caution through his whole discourse as in this place: all, or some do it; they mind the nature of Schism; they mind it as precedaneous to the separation, so the sum of what he aims at in contesting