( 139) had happened as they furmized , but unto all the Churches in the World that would hold Communion with them. But in thefe things we have no concernment. Other Notions ofSchifine betides thofe infihed on, we acknow- ledge not, nor is any other advanced with the leaft Probality of Truth. Nor are we to be moved with outcries about Schifine , wherein without regard to. Truth or Charity, men contend for their own Intereft. Of thofe Notions of it which have been received by men, fober and learned, we decline a trial by none ; that only excepted, that the Refufl of Obedience unta the Pope andChurchofTome, is all that is Schifine in the World, which indeed is none at all. That which is now fo fiercely pleaded by fome con- cerning different Obfervations ofexternal Modes, Rites, Cuftomes, fome, more, or none at all, to make men Schifmaticks , is at once to judge all the Primitive.: Churches to be Schifmatical. Their Differences, Va- rieties, and Diverfities among them, about thefe things, cannot be enumerated ; and fo without any difadván- tage unto the Faith, or breach ofLove, they continued to be,untill all Church Order and Powerwas (wallowed up in the Papal Tyranny ten thoufand times more per- nicious, then ten thoufand fuch Difputes. For a Clofe unto this whole Difcourfe, concerning the original nature and fiate of Gofpel Churches, I !hall ufe that Liberty which Love of theTruth puts into my Poffeffion. Churches mentioned in the Scripture, or- dained and appointedby the Authority of Jefus Chrift; were
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