Owen - BX5085 O84x 1681

t 231 ) CHAP. XI. Of Schifinea ALthough it be no part of my prefent Defrgn to treat of' the Nature of Schifrhe, yet with re- fpeEi unto what hath already been difcourfed,, and to manifefh our inconcernment in the Guilt of it, I (hail, as was faid, divert to give a plain and brief Account of it. And in our Enquiry, I muff declare my felfwholly unconcerned, in all the Difcords, Divifions, and Seditions, that have fallen out among Chriflians in the Iatter Ages, about things that were of their own Invention. Schifine is a Sin againf Chrlian Love, with reference unto the deportment ofmen in and about the Inflitutions ofChrift and their Commu- nion in them. As for Contentions, Divifions, or Sepa rations amongft men, about that Order, Agreement, Unity or Uniformity which are of their own Appoint- ment, whatever Moral Evil they have had in them, . they do not belong unto that Church Schifine, which we enquire after. Such have been the horrid Divifions. and Fightings that have prevailed at Seafons in the Church of owe, a departure from whole felffconilitut- ec

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