( 233 ) Natick.. Yet this is that which ifnot only, yet princi- pally the Confciences of Men are to regard, if they will avoid the Guilt of Schifme. But this Notion of it, as was Paid, being not fuited unto the Intereft or Ad- vantages ofany fort of men, in the charge of it on o- thers ; nor anyway fubfervient to fecure the Inventions and Impofitions ofthe molt, is on the matter loft in the World. 2. The fecond Inftance of Ecclellaflical Schifme, was given us in the fame Church of the Corinthians after- wards, an account whereof we have in the Epiftle of Clemens or of the Church ofRome unto them, about it, the molt eminent Monument of primitive Antiquity ; after the Writings by Divine Infpiration. And that which he-calls Schifine in that Church, he calls alfo.f-frfe, contention, (edition, tumult ; And it may be obferved concerning that Schifine, as all the Antients call it. z. That the Church continued its ftate and outward Communion. There is no mentionofany thatfeparated from it, that conftituted a New Church ; only in the fame Church they agreed not, but were divided among themfelves. Want of Love and Forbearance, attend- ed with ftrife and contention, among the Members of the fame Church, abiding in the fame outward Commu- nion, was the Schifine they were Guilty of. 2. The Ef£e& of this Schifine was, that the Body of the Church, or Multitudes of the elembers, by the In- . ftigation of ome fen) diforderly `Perfons, had depofedtheir Elders and tilers from their Offices, and probably had O g chofen
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