( 237 ) them who Teemed to have the moll Advantage in the Application ofit, unto thofe who diffented from them. It were an endlefs thing to exprefs the Rife and declare the Progrefs of thefe Apprehenfions. But after many loofe and declamatoryDifcourfes about it, they are ge- rally iffued in twoHeads. The firft is, that any kind of D?nt from the `pope and Church of ?ome, i.r Schifine, all the Schifine that is or can be in the World. The other is, that a caufelef Separationfrom a true Church, is Schfine, and this only is fo. But whereas in this pre- tended Definition, there is nomention ofany of its in- ternal Caufes, nor of its formal Reafon, but a bare De- fcription of it by an outward Effeft, it Cerves only for a weapon in every mans hand to perpetuate digladiations about it. For every Church efteems itfelf true, and every one that feparates himfelf, efteems himfelf to have juft Caùfe fo to do. In the following Times, efpecially after the Rife and Prevalency of the Xrian Herefie, it was ordinary for thofe of the Orthodox Perfwafion , to forfake the Communion of thofe Churches wherein Arian Bi (hops did prefide, and to gather thernfelves into feparaté Meetings or Conventicles for divine Worship, for which they were accufed of Sehifrae, and in fundry places punt(hed accordingly, yea fome of themunto the Lofs of their Lives. Yet I fuppofe there are none now: who judge them to have beenSchJnatickr. TheSeparation of Covátuf,. and Donates, from the Communion ofthe whole Catholick Vifible Church, on.: unwarrantable Pretences, is that which makes the loud eft noife about Schilme in Antiquity. That there was in what,
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