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A44476	Hales, John, 1584-1656.	A tract concerning schism and schismatiqves wherein is briefly discovered the originall causes of all schisme / written by a learned and judicious divine ; together with certain animadversions upon some passages thereof.	1642		.xml	application/xml	11497	297	55	To know no more then this , if you take it to be true , had been enough to direct how you are to judge , and what to think of Schisme and Schismatiques , yet because of the Ancients , ( by whom many are more affrighted then hurt ) much is said and many fearefull doomes are pronounced in this case , we will descend a little to consider of Schisme , as it were by way of story , and that partly farther to open that , which we have said in generall by instancing in particulars , and partly to disabuse those , who reverencing Antiquity more then needs , have suffered themselves to be scared with imputation of Schisme above due measure , for what the Ancients speake by way of censure of Schisme in generall is most true , for they saw ( and it is no great matter to see so much ) that unadvised and open fancy to break the knot of union , betwixt man and man ( especially amongst Christians , upon whom above all other kind of men , the tye of love and communion doth most especially rest ) was a crime hardly pardonable , and that nothing absolves men from the guilt of it , but true and unpretended Conscience , yet when they came to pronounce of Schisme in particular , ( whether it was because of their own interest , or that they saw not the truth , or for what other cause God only doth know ) their judgements many times ( to speak most gently ) are justly to be suspected , which that you may see , we will range all Schisme into two rankes . For why might not it be lawfull to goe to Church with the Donatist , or to celebrate Easter with the Quartodeciman , if occasion so require ? since neither Nature , nor Religion , nor Reason doth suggest any thing of moment to the contrary ?	cache/A44476.xml	txt/A44476.txt
