Schism.Schisme.

Schism.

Schisme.

1 Although it is sure that a good man shall not finally fall in the main points of his salvation, yet he may be seduced in some less matters, but for all that in the end he shall escape: but the seducer shall surely be punished. For a well meaning man found in faith, and yet a novice in Christ, may be carried to like some solemn superstitions, and ⟨p. 37⟩pompous ceremonies in the worship of God. Again, a man careful and right in the substance of salvation, for the remnants of corruptions & defects of good things, may easily be drawn of a malicious man to cut off himself from the Church, not being able to discern between essential and accidental, between the principal and inferior points, which make or destroy a Church, that is, which cannot judge how, the substantial ground works remaining, there is a Church, though there be otherwise some accidental things wanting. If any man not so much intending this mans good, as to feed his own ambition,