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id: A44133
author: Holdsworth, Richard, 1590-1649.
date: 1649
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words: 2418
sentence: 61
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title:
  An answer without a question, or, The late schismatical petition for a diabolicall toleration of seuerall religions expovnded being presented to the juncto at Westminster, August 16, 1646 by Colonel Pride and Lievtenant Colonel Goffe and others by the appointment of the Lord Fairfax their general : with some observations upon the mistery of their iniquity, and the juncto's answer thereunto / written by that reverend divine, Doctor Holdisworth ...

summary:
  This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A44133 of text R40997 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing H2392). Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 109111) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1690:2)


id: A43196
author: Friend to the virgin daughter of Zion.
date: 1658
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 4623
sentence: 328
flesch: 86
cache: cache/A43196.xml
txt: txt/A43196.txt
title:
  Healing queries for sick churches that is, some seasonable thing begun, whereby the present breaches in churches may be repaired, future rents and divisions prevented, and so all the Lords people have communion not in darknesse but light / published, by a friend to the virgin daughter of Zion.

summary:
  Healing queries for sick churches that is, some seasonable thing begun, whereby the present breaches in churches may be repaired, future rents and divisions prevented, and so all the Lords people have communion not in darknesse but light / published, by a friend to the virgin daughter of Zion. Friend to the virgin daughter of Zion. Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 741:25) Healing queries for sick churches that is, some seasonable thing begun, whereby the present breaches in churches may be repaired, future rents and divisions prevented, and so all the Lords people have communion not in darknesse but light / published, by a friend to the virgin daughter of Zion. Friend to the virgin daughter of Zion.


id: A40722
author: Fullwood, Francis, d. 1693.
title: Toleration not to be abused by the Independents by a lover of truth and peace.
date: 1672
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 5725
sentence: 172
flesch: 52
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summary:
  eng Religious tolerance -- Church of England. And in their Institution of Churches ; Persons that are joyned in Church-fellowship , ought not lightly to withdraw themselves from the Communion of the Church , to which they are so joyned .


id: A43343
author: Henry, Matthew, 1662-1714.
date: 1690
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 7405
sentence: 248
flesch: 63
cache: cache/A43343.xml
txt: txt/A43343.txt
title:
  A brief enquiry into the true nature of schism: or a persuasive to Christian love and charity. Humbly submitted to better judgments; by M.H. Licensed Jan. 8. 1689/90

summary:
  But our special enquiry must be in the New Testament , and forasmuch as Words are the significations of things let us see what the Scripture means by this word , Schism . THere hath scarce been any one thing that hath been bandi'd to and fro in the Christian world with more Heat and Noise among the several Dividing Parties than the charge of Schism .


id: A52277
author: Hody, Humphrey, 1659-1707.
date: 1691
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 7570
sentence: 354
flesch: 64
cache: cache/A52277.xml
txt: txt/A52277.txt
title:
  The unreasonableness of a separation from the new bishops, or, A treatise out of ecclesiastical history shewing that although a bishop was unjustly deprived, neither he nor the church ever made a separation, if the successor was not a heretick / translated out of an ancient Greek manuscript in the publick library at Oxford, by Humfrey Hody ...

summary:
  Notes, typically marginal, from the original text Notes for div A52277-e260 * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , and , 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 . And that it should be preserved till our Times , and yet hitherto be overlooked ; and at this very Juncture be taken notice of , and so opportunely brought to light , seems to be more than a fortuitous Hit ; it appears to have something of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and a singular Providence in it .


id: A50415
author: Mayne, Jasper, 1604-1672.
date: 1652
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mime: application/xml
words: 9971
sentence: 331
flesch: 71
cache: cache/A50415.xml
txt: txt/A50415.txt
title:
  A sermon against schisme, or, The seperations of these times preacht in the church of Wattlington in Oxford-shire, with some interruption, September 11, 1652 : at a publick dispute held there between Jasper Mayne, D.D. and one ----- ...

summary:
  Lastly , This choyce of a New Guide , and Separation from the Old , this Erection of a New Church , and Division from the former must be upon slight unnecessary Grounds ; For if the Cause , or Ground of their Separation be needlesse , vaine , unnecessary , if it spring more out of Humour , Pride , desi●e of change , or Hatred of their Brethren , then out of any Christian love to keepe themselves from sinnes ; 'T is in the Scripture-Language Schisme , That is , a sinne of Separation . Where speaking of such Coseners , he sayes , they had a Forme of Godlinesse , an outward seeming Holynesse to deceive and cosen by ; And that under this Forme of Godlynesse they crept into Houses , and there led Captive silly Women , loaden with sinnes , and drawne away with divers Lusts.


id: A65268
author: Watson, Richard, 1612-1685.
title: A sermon touching schisme, lately preached at St. Maries in Cambridge by R. I. Watson ...
date: 1642
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mime: application/xml
words: 10660
sentence: 382
flesch: 62
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summary:
  PYthagoras , that old Samian Philosopher , who ( as Justine Martyr records ) was wont to veil and disguise his opinions under dark speeches and mysticall symbols , having made Unitie the originall of all things , and the cause of all good that is in the world ; the Father takes not his words for his meaning , but under the allegoricall veil of that Unitie discovers an undivided Deitie : {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} , saith he in his Cohortation to the Grecians . In like manner , S. Paul in this chapter exhorting the Ephesians to the endeavour of keeping the unitie of the Spirit in the bond of peace , after he hath told them , There is but one body , meaning of a Catholick Church howsoever dispersed over the whole earth ; But one Spirit , of a God informing and giving life to every member thereof ; But one hope of their Christian calling ( as if all this Unitie were but to usher in a single Deitie ) he concludes all with an {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} , There is one God , vers.


id: A44476
author: Hales, John, 1584-1656.
date: 1642
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mime: application/xml
words: 11497
sentence: 297
flesch: 55
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title:
  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.

summary:
  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 ?


id: A62284
author: Saywell, William, 1643-1701.
date: 1688
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words: 12709
sentence: 506
flesch: 63
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title:
  The reformation of the Church of England justified according to the canons of the Council of Nice, and other general councils, and the tradition of the Catholick Church being an answer to a paper reprinted at Oxford, called (The schism of the Church of England) demonstrated in four arguments, formerly proposed to Dr. Gunning and Dr. Pearson the late bishops of Ely and Chester, by two Catholick disputants, in a celebrated conference upon that point : in which answer the unworthy and false dealings of the papists are shewed, and the charge of schism returned upon them, and the Church of England proved truly Catholick and apostolick in her doctrine and constitution / by Dr. Saywell.

summary:
  Day and Veysey were justly set aside in King Edward's Days , for not consenting to the Decree of the major part of the Bishops , as appears by the Protector 's Letter to Bishop Gardner in Dr. Burnet's Collection ; and Bishop Scory and Coverdale were by the consent of the Archbishop and Bishops Regularly settled in their Places , in peaceable Times wherein no Cruelties were exercised , no Man was put to Death for his Religion , and only that Discipline was used , to turn out those that would not quietly submit to the Determinations of the major part of the Bishops of the Province ; and as for Bishop Barlow , he was Consecrated a Bishop of this Church near ' twenty Years before , in King Henry the Eighth's Days , and so was Bishop Hodgkins Suffragan at Bedford . But these four Mens Title is more Firm and Ancient than theirs , for the Popish Bishops were either such as were legally Deposed ; and thrust themselves afterwards in the Places of the Lawful Bishops , and then put many of them to Death , or all else but Bishop Thirlby , were ordained by , or communicated with them during their Schism and Usurpation , and therefore , neither the Ordainers nor Ordained had any Right or Jurisdiction in the Church of England ; so that Bishop Barlow , Bishop Scory , Bishop Coverdale , being undoubted Regular Bishops of the Church of England at King Edward's Death , and all that was done in Queen Mary's Days being acted by Bishops that had no Lawful Jurisdiction , the Regular Authority of Ordaining and Conferring Jurisdiction , as well as Order , was devolved to them , and they might take Bishop Hodgkins into their Assistance to add the greater Solemnity to their Ordination , so that those Fourteen , were so far from being Regular Bishops of the Church of England , that they will not be able to clear themselves of Schism , Murder , and the damnable Heresy of the Deposing Doctrine .


id: A41431
author: Gooden, Peter, d. 1695.
date: 1687
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mime: application/xml
words: 12627
sentence: 366
flesch: 58
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title:
  The sum of a conference had between two divines of the Church of England and two Catholic lay-gentlemen at the request and for the satisfaction of three persons of quality, August 8, 1671.

summary:
  Now mark the Father , he says , Christ affirming of Bread , this is my Body , &c. This Bread is my Body is a Contradiction , therefore Bread or Body must not be taken Literally . Drs. All Scriptures ought not to be expounded literally , which do not imply a Contradiction in a literal sense : I am a Vine , ought not to be expounded literally , yet it implies no Contradiction , or at least no more than this , Christ is Bread. Cath.


id: A34541
author: Corbet, John, 1620-1680.
date: 1679
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 16496
sentence: 578
flesch: 58
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title:
  The point of church-unity and schism discuss'd by a nonconformist, with respect to the church-divisions in England.

summary:
  Local , presential Communion in Gods Ordinances , being a main end of erecting particular Churches , they should in all reason consist of Persons , who by their cohabitation in a vicinity are capable of such Communion , and there may not be a greater local distanc● of the Persons than can stand with it . All Christians of the same local Precinct are most conveniently brought into one and the same stated Church , that ●here might be the greatest Union among them , and that the occasion of straggling and running into several Parties might be avoided .


id: A52054
author: Marshall, Stephen, 1594?-1655.
date: 1653
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words: 19158
sentence: 357
flesch: 44
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title:
  A sermon preached to the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor, and Court of Aldermen of the city of London, at their anniversary meeting on Easter Monday April 1652, at the Spittle wherein the unity of the saints with Christ, the head, and especially with the church, the body, with the duties thence arising, are endeavoured to be cleared : tending to heale our rents and divisions / by Stephen Marshal ...

summary:
  You all know there is at this day much disputing , about what things are requisite to make men Church-members ; some very learned men maintain , That to make a man admittable into Christs Church , or to make him a Church-member , no more is in the Scripture required , but only , that he give up his name , and professe , that he is willing to learne the wayes of Christ , and to walke in them ; the Church of Christ being , say they , appointed as a Schoole , to traine Schollars up , into which are admitted not only those that are Learned , but those who are willing to learne . Others say , That is too laxe , if you wil own a man , as a Church-member , he must be able to give you an account of his faith , and a promise of a voluntary subjection to the Gospel of Christ for time to come , and if they come to that , then you may take them in ; and owne them , as Church-members .


id: A44394
author: Hales, John, 1584-1656.
date: 1677
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mime: application/xml
words: 19430
sentence: 499
flesch: 55
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title:
  Four tracts by the ever memorable Mr. John Hales of Eaton College. Viz. I. Of the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper. II. Of the power of the keyes. III. Of schism and schismaticks. IV. Missellanies.

summary:
  But because to dispute against a Man out of his own Principles , which perchance are false ( for this oft we know falls out , that by the power of Syllogisms , Men may and do draw True Conclusions from False Premises ) because , I say , thus to do , in the judgment of Aristotle , leaves a Man 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ; and I am willing not only to perswade you , but to better you : I will draw the little which remains to be said in this Point from other Places . Socrates Apologizing for himself , that professing to write an Ecclesiastical Story , he did oft-times interlace the actions of secular Princes and other civil businesses ; tells us , That he did thus to refresh his Reader , who otherwise were in danger to be cloy'd by reading so much of the Acts of unquiet and unruly Bishops , 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , in which as a Man might say , they made Butter and Cheese one of another ; For 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , ( that I may shew you a cast out of my old Office , and open you a Mystery in Grammer ) properly signifieth to make Butter and Cheese : Now because these are not made without much agitation of the Milk , hence 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , by a borrowed and translated signification , signifies to do things with much agitation and tumult .


id: A34335
author: Conold, Robert.
date: 1676
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mime: application/xml
words: 20340
sentence: 520
flesch: 49
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title:
  The notion of schism stated according to the antients, and considered with reference to the non-conformists, and the pleas for schismaticks examined being animadversions upon the plea for the non-conformists : with reflections on that famous Tract of schism, written by Mr. Hales in two letters to a very worthy gentleman.

summary:
  And if the Church should part with all those things which Dissenters judge to be sinful , there could be neither Church nor Government : for we must throw off our Hoods and Surplice to gratifie the scrupulous Puritan ; we must strip our selves stark-naked to satisfie the Fanaticism of the Adamites ; nay , we must part not only with Rites and Ceremonies , but the whole Liturgie and Hierarchy of the Church , because some fancy them to be Anti-christian ; nay , the Creed is not secure , we must expunge the Article of Christs Divinity to humour the Socinians ; we must blot out the Propitiation of Christ , the Doctrine of the Trinity , and the Resurrection of the body , to gratifie the Quakers : and so we must not only deface the front and out-side of the Temple , but even raze it to the ground , because it does not please the eye of these men of Babel : nay , we must renounce our reason and our senses too to satisfie the Papists in the Doctrine of Transubstantiation , and so by this method , at length we must neither be men nor Christians . Sir , As an obedient Son of the Church of England , and a Loyal Subject to my Soveraign , and so oblig'd to be very solicitous of the Welfare of Church and State , give me leave to sigh out some thoughts which have been and are afflictive to my Solitudes , and may detect , if not the causes , at least the encouragements of our Schisms .


id: A38827
author: Everard, John, missioner.
date: 1687
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 23598
sentence: 616
flesch: 53
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txt: txt/A38827.txt
title:
  A winding-sheet for the schism of England contriv'd for to inform the ignorant, resolve the wavering, and confirm the well principled Roman Catholick. By J. E. missioner.

summary:
  Scripture is a Light only to the Faithful , because known from the Church's Tradition to be from the Apostles , by the Apostles Authority confirmed by Miracles to be of God , by God's supreme Verity , who cannot deceive nor be deceived , to be the truth : Here I infer how they are bereaved of Human Understanding , that do not see palpably , that a pretended Church which begun by breach of Promises to God , by Sacrileges and Impurities of Apostates , by general Revolt against Kings , against Divine and Human Laws , by the filth and ordure of the Carrion and caitive Flesh , by the dissolution of good Manners , by Blood , Furies , and Confusion , could not come and take its source from the Divine Spirit ; yet they boldly say , they find Scripture of their side .


id: A42125
author: Gandy, Henry, 1649-1734.
title: An answer to some queries concerning schism, toleration, &c. in a letter to a friend ...
date: 1700
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mime: application/xml
words: 24861
sentence: 1214
flesch: 69
cache: cache/A42125.xml
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summary:
  We [ Church of England and Rome ] are thus far agreed , that Schism and Heresy are dangerous sins , destructive of the Peace and Order , the well being at least , if not the Being of Gods Church , and such sins , as without a true and timely Repentance , will unavoidably and eternally ruin those that are guilty of them . When we cannot obey our Spiritual Rulers , without disobeying the express Laws of Christ , the reason of our Communion with such a Church ceaseth , because it does not answer , ( nay contradicts ) the end of Christian Society , which is to have fellowship with the Father and his Son Jesus Christ . 1 Jo. 1. 3. If any Patriarch , Prelate , Church or Churches shall enjoyn Sinfull Duties to their Subjects — it is very Lawful for their Subjects to disobey them , and for strangers to separate from them .


id: A26909
author: Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691.
date: 1683
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 30906
sentence: 1156
flesch: 66
cache: cache/A26909.xml
txt: txt/A26909.txt
title:
  The dangerous schismatick clearly detected and fully confuted for the saving of a distracted nation from that which would destroy Christian love and unity : occasioned by a resolver of three cases about church-communion / by Richard Baxter ...

summary:
  At Wal●all in Sta●ford-shire , Mr. Lapthorne ( known to me in his lusty age ) who had been a Non-conformist , but thought it an honour to be converted by a King , and gloried that King James in conference changed him ; but being as rustick a thunderer as Father Latimer and more , he was wont to let fly without much fear ; one Mr. Martin in the Parish accounted the greatest enemy to Puritans , when he heard what he liked not , would goe out of Church ; one day ( in a path way where Mr. Lane had rode a little before ) pelting Crabs with a pole , the ground opened and swallowed him and his pole , that they could never be found ( being a Cole-mine long on fire : ) ever after that , when any one would goe out of Church at a blustering passage , Mr. Lapthorne would call to him , Remember Martin ; Quere , Whether all these were separating Schismaticks ? They unchurch and damn the Churches of Corinth , Gala●ia , La●dicca , Ephesus , Smyrna , &c. in the Apostles dayes : For the Scripture tells us of many guilty of Schism in all these , and yet the rest communicated with them ; for the Scripture speaks more of Schism in a Church , than of Schism or Separation from a Church , Rom. 16. 17. 1 Cor.


id: A70260
author: Hales, John, 1584-1656.
date: 1677
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 31660
sentence: 856
flesch: 59
cache: cache/A70260.xml
txt: txt/A70260.txt
title:
  Several tracts, by the ever memorable Mr. John Hales of Eaton Coll. &c. Viz. I. Of the sacrament of the Lord's Supper. II. Paraphrase on St. Matthew's Gospel. III. Of the power of the keys. IV. Of schism and schismaticks, (never before printed by the original copy.) V. Miscellanies

summary:
  To know no more than this , if you take it to be true , had been enough to direct how you are to judge , and what to think of Schism and Schismaticks ; yet because in the Ancients , ( by whom many Men are more affrighted than hurt ) much is said , and many fearful Dooms are pronounced in this case ; will we descend a little to consider of Schisms , as it were by way of Story , and that partly further to open that which we have said in general , by instancing in particulars ; and partly to disabuse those who reverencing Antiquity more than needs , have suffered themselves to be scared with imputation of Schism , above due measure ; for what the Ancients spake by way of censure of Schism in general , is most true ; for they saw ( and it is no great matter to see so much ) that unadvisedly , and upon 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 a man from the guilt of it , but true and unpretended Conscience ; yet when they came to pronounce of Schisms in particular ( whether it were because of their own interests , or that they saw not the Truth , or for what other cause God only doth know ) their Judgments many times ( to speak most gently ) are justly to be suspected ; Which that you may see , we will range all Schism into two ranks . 5. The Blasphemy against the Son of Man was , when men considered Christ as a mere man , and did disgracefully tax his conversation , by saying , behold a glutton , a bibber of Wine , a friend to Publicans and sinners .


id: A34675
author: Cotton, John, 1584-1652.
date: 1658
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 32449
sentence: 929
flesch: 57
cache: cache/A34675.xml
txt: txt/A34675.txt
title:
  A defence of Mr. John Cotton from the imputation of selfe contradiction, charged on him by Mr. Dan. Cavvdrey written by himselfe not long before his death ; whereunto is prefixed, an answer to a late treatise of the said Mr. Cavvdrey about the nature of schisme, by John Owen ...

summary:
  though I may say there is indeed no Contradiction between these Assertions , seeing in the latter place I speak of Rome as that Church is stated by themselves , when yet I acknowledge there may be corrupted Churches both in Rome and Italy in the same Treatise ; Yea I do not find that in the place directed unto , I have in termes , or in just consequence at all granted the Church of Rome to be a Collapsed Church : nay the Church of Rome is not once mentioned in the whole page , nor as such is spoken of : and what shall we think of this proceeding ? 5. The keye of Authority , or Rule is committed to the Elders of the Church , and so the Act of Rule is the proper Act of their office , Keyes pag. 20.


id: A70371
author: Brinsley, John, fl. 1581-1624.
date: 1678
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 33268
sentence: 1280
flesch: 67
cache: cache/A70371.xml
txt: txt/A70371.txt
title:
  The present separation self-condemned and proved to be schism as it is exemplified in a sermon preached upon that subject / by Mr. W. Jenkyn ; and is further attested by divers others of his own persuasion all produced in answer to a letter from a friend.

summary:
  140. To make ruptures in the Body of Christ , and to divide Church from Church , and to set up Church against Church , and to gather Churches out of true Churches , and because we differ in some things , therefore to hold Communion in nothing ; this we think hath no warrant out of the Word of God , and will introduce all manner of Confusion in Churches , — and set open a wide gap to bring in Atheism , Popery , Heresie , and all manner of wickedness . Their Heresies were perverse and damnable Opinions , their Schism was a perverse separation from Church-communion : The former was in Doctrinals , the latter in Practicals .


id: A90287
author: Owen, John, 1616-1683.
date: 1657
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 34926
sentence: 723
flesch: 44
cache: cache/A90287.xml
txt: txt/A90287.txt
title:
  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.

summary:
  The open and manifest injury done , not only to my selfe , in laying things to my charge which I know not , lading me with reproaches , tending to a rendring of me odious to all the ministers and Churches in the world , not agreeing with me in somefew things concerning Gospell administrations , but also to all other Churches and persons of the same judgment with my selfe , called for a speedy account of the true state of the things contended about . I suppose the reader is weary of pursuing things so little to our purpose : if he will hear any further , that Independents are schismaticks , that the setting up of their way hath opened a door to all evills and confusions , that they have separated from all churches , and condemne all churches in the world but their owne ; that they have hindred Reformation and the setting up of the Presbyterian Church ; that being members of our Churches , as they are members of the nation , because they are borne in it , yet they have deserted them ; that they gather Churches which they pretend to be spick and span new ; they have separated from us , that they countenance Quakers , and all other Sectaries , that they will reforme a nationall church whether men will or no , though they say that they only desire to reforme themselves , and plead for liberty to that end .


id: A27028
author: Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691.
date: 1684
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 38013
sentence: 1388
flesch: 65
cache: cache/A27028.xml
txt: txt/A27028.txt
title:
  Schism detected in both extreams, or, Two sorts of sinful separation the first part detecteth the schismatical principles of a resolver of three cases about church-communion, the second part confuteth the separation pleaded for in a book famed to be written by Mr. Raphson.

summary:
  But as a Moral means ( specially blest by him that instituted it ) to work on man as Man , by informing his Mind , perswading his Will and exciting his Affections , as Men are wrought on in other Cases ; ( which methinks those called Arminians should least deny , who are said to lay more of the Spirits operation on Moral suasion than their Adversaries ; yea and those that account it Fanaticism to expect any other gift of Prayer from the Spirit but what is given morally by use . ) And the contrary Doctrine feigneth God to Work even constantly by Miracle : And as the Papists make every Mass-Priest a Miracle Worker in Transubstantiation , so do they that make the bare saying over the Words and doing the outward Acts in the Sacrament , to save us ex opere operato , and the Pastoral teaching and oversight of an ignorant drunken Lad or Reader to be ( near ) as great a help to Salvation , as the Ministry of a wise skilful , Holy and exemplary Pastor , and the clear affectionate Preaching of Gods word : And that tell us ( as Mr. Dodwell ) how sufficient a man is to administer the Sacramental Covenant that understands what a Covenant is in matters of Common Conversation . XXXI . Church -- Catholicity.


id: A45426
author: Hammond, Henry, 1605-1660.
date: 1653
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flesch: 60
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title:
  Of schisme a defence of the Church of England against the exceptions of the Romanists / by H. Hammond ...

summary:
  And again , as Christ did nothing without his Father ( 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ) being united to him , or all one with his Father , 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 — so neither must ye doe any thing without the Bishop , 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , but assemble together and have but one prayer common to you all , where the living out of this regular obedience to the Bishop , is the contrary to union and communion , and so is formally schisme . 〈◊〉 of the syncerity of that repentance , is , 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , if they return to the unity of God and senate of the Bishop .


id: A77494
author: Brinsley, John, 1600-1665.
date: 1646
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mime: application/xml
words: 38252
sentence: 2311
flesch: 79
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txt: txt/A77494.txt
title:
  The araignment of the present schism of new separation in old England. Together vvith a serious recommendation of church-unity and uniformity. As it was lately presented to the church of God at great Yarmouth, / by John Brinsley.

summary:
  The word rendred [ restore ] is the same with that in the Text , {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} , set him in joyn● again . Isaiah 9. 6. {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} . Are● .


id: A30624
author: Burscough, Robert, 1651-1709.
date: 1699
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 47258
sentence: 2169
flesch: 73
summary: c. 1. b 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , &c. c. 47. Col. 83 , 84. a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 . b Chr.
cache: cache/A30624.xml
txt: txt/A30624.txt
title:
  A discourse of schism address'd to those dissenters who conform'd before the toleration, and have since withdrawn themselves from the communion of the Church of England / by Robert Burscough ...


id: A27032
author: Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691.
date: 1671
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mime: application/xml
words: 50249
sentence: 1934
flesch: 71
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txt: txt/A27032.txt
title:
  A second admonition to Mr. Edward Bagshaw written to call him to repentance for many false doctrines, crimes, and specially fourscore palpable untruths in matter of fact ... : with a confutation of his reasons for separation ... / by Richard Baxter ...

summary:
  When as God hath neither tyed us to set forms , nor from them ; save only as unsuitableness to any particular persons may make one less edifying than the other : And both free prayers , and set forms , studied prayers , and sudden prayers , are all the work of man , ( as to mans part ) : and therefore they must needs be imperfect and faulty as man is : And yet in both we may pray by the Spirit , even with the holy and fervent desires which the Spirit exciteth in us : And the Spirit may ordinarily be a Spirit of supplication in us , and help our infirmities , in the one way and in the other : And therefore , though I will not equall them ( For I prefer some mens free praying before any forms , and I prefer the Common prayers before some mens free prayers ) We easily confess , that as Peace signifieth our freedom from persecution or sufferings , or from the reproach of men , the least holy truth is to be preferred before it , and more tenaciously held than it : But if by Peace , they mean the Unity and Concord of believers , or of the Church of God , they speak dangerously , and suppose a pernicious falshood , that Gods Truth , and such Peace or Concord , may at any time be separated : And it is no wiselier spoken , than if they had said , A mans eye-sight or health is to be preferred before the Union of his soul and body , or before the Concord of Head and Heart , or before the conjunction of his members .


id: A90276
author: Owen, John, 1616-1683.
date: 1657
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mime: application/xml
words: 60695
sentence: 2111
flesch: 64
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title:
  Of schisme the true nature of it discovered and considered, with reference to the present differences in religion. / By John Owen D.D.

summary:
  l. 3. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , p. 131. l. 20. hath been , p. 133. unruly , or disorderly persons , not abiding in obedience to the order prescribed by Christ in , and unto his Churches : and sayes , they walked 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 2 Thess . 3 6. out of all Church order : whom he would have warned and avoided : so also 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 2 Th. 3 2. persons that abide quietly in no place or station , but wandred up & down ; whom whatever their profession be , he denies to have faith .


id: A49123
author: Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691. Mr. Baxter's arguments for conformity against separation.
date: 1678
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 60859
sentence: 1862
flesch: 59
cache: cache/A49123.xml
txt: txt/A49123.txt
title:
  Mr. Hales's treatise of schism examined and censured by Thomas Long ... ; to which are added, Mr. Baxter's arguments for conformity, wherein the most material passages of the treatise of schism are answered.

summary:
  And the Arrians and Donatists having for a long time rent the Church of God and pulled down the Fences both of Church and State , they made way for vast numbers of Infidels to enter , among whom the Christians being mixed and living in subjection to them in divers places , they learned this custom also of making and honouring the Images of those whom they accounted their Patrons and benefactors . Whatever is commanded us by them whom God hath set over us either in Church , Common-wealth or Family ( quod tamen non sit certum displicere Deo , saith S. Bernard ) which is not evidently contrary to the Law and will of God , ought of us to be received and obeyed no otherwise than if God himself had commanded , because God himself hath commanded us to obey the higher powers , and to submit our selves to their Ordinances .


id: A45460
author: Hammond, Henry, 1605-1660.
date: 1654
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 70081
sentence: 1481
flesch: 46
cache: cache/A45460.xml
txt: txt/A45460.txt
title:
  A reply to the Catholick gentlemans answer to the most materiall parts of the booke Of schisme whereto is annexed, an account of H.T. his appendix to his Manual of controversies, concerning the Abbot of Bangors answer to Augustine / by H. Hammond.

summary:
  The equivalence of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 . It is true indeed that either Bede , or some Interpolator , that copied out the original Latine of that Historie , hath thought good to insert some words in the end of that story , l. 2. c. 2. in fine , ( quamvis ipso jam multo ante tempore ad coelestia regna sublato ) which might delude men into a perswasion , that this bloody act was a long time after Augustine's death ; But for this , First , it is observable that King Alfred's Saxon translation or paraphrase of Bede , wholly omits that parenthesis , and reads it onely thus , 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 B. A 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , &c. and so was fulfilled the prediction of S. Augustine , that they should feel the revenge of temporal destruction .


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