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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96097	The arch-rebel found, or An answer to Mr. M. H.'s Brief enquiry into the true nature of schism By T.W., citizen of Chester ...	T. W.	1690 (1690)	Wing W111A; ESTC R43946	21,021	35

Schismatick And consequently all Societies of Christians who withdraw themselves from the Government of their Bishops who are the Apostles Successors and from communicating with those Presbyters lawfully set over them by Episcopal Ordination and Institution and frame themselves into any other kind of Government are guilty of Schism This 〈◊〉 the true formal Notion of Schism in the sense of the Fathers in the ●tive Church Of which more anon This Church so constituted and established to continue to the end of the ●orld from its Universallity was by the Primitive Fathers called the Catholick Church and from its Unity the Communion of Saints Which is now to be considered What this Union and Communion of Saints is appears by Holy Scripture St. John 13. v. 35. By this shall all men know that ye are my Disciples if ye have love one for another Love is the Badge of a Disciple of Christ and Member of the Catholick Church but there must be more in the command to the Disciples to love one another than commonly the acceptation Love hath for the Christian Religion enjoyns Love and Charity to all men To Love our Enemies to pray for them that hate us and to do good to them that despitefully use us and persecute us is the command of our Blessed Saviour and Gal. 6. v. 10. As we have therefore opertunity let us do good unto all men So that this Love which one Disciple is to have for another must be such as distinguisheth Chrstians from all other men Now what can that be but to love one another as members of the same Body whereof Christ is the Head and what can that be but to live in Christian Communion and Fellowship one with another I● cannot be the bare loving one another for there are some who are not Christians who are so bountiful and loving towards all men that if this were the only Charact●ristical mark of a Christian they would and must pass for Christians without believing in Christ And who seeth not that Pyrats and Robbers and the vilest of men love one another So that it is as before is said not the bare loving one another by which men are known to be Christians but the being admitted by Baptism into the Society of the Christian Church and loving one another in the Communion of that Church this is that which makes true Christian Charity Saint Paul commands 1 Cor. 12.25 26. that there be no Schism in the Body but the Members should have the same care one for another and whether one Member suffers all the Members suffer with it or one Member be honored all the Members rejoyce with it now ye are the Body of Christ and Members in particular Christians to love one another is to love like Members of the same Body to preserve the Body from all Rents and Schisms and to maintain Sympathy and Chri●●● Charity in the Communion of Christs Body whereof we are all M●●bers So that Christian Charity unites us to Christs Body and nothin●● Christian Love and Charity that doth not unite us in one Body 〈◊〉 one Communion that is one external visible Communion of the Christian Church Thus you see that by the words Christian Love and Charity so much used in Scripture must be understood the Communion of Saints and that out of the Communion of Saints there can be no Christian Charity And so is the same thing meant expressed by other words namely Brotherly Love Rom. 10.12 and by the name Brethren Heb. 13. v. 1. Let brotherly Love continue This term Brother was given to none but those who liv'd in Communion with the Church not the Gnosticks who seperated from it under pretence of greater Knowledge nor any who separate upon any pretence whatsoever And a●ter the Apostles the Primitive Church did confine the Christian Brother-hood to the Communion of the Church all the Precepts relating to Brotherly Love either in the Evangelists or Apostles suppose Christians to be Members of the Mystical Body of Christ that is his C●urch and to be all United there in full Communion and this is what t●e ●postle means to have no Schism in the Body out of all which it appears Fi●thly to assent to and believe all the Articles of Faith contained in the Apo●●les Nicene and Saint Athanasius's Creed allow'd and receiv'd in the Primitive Church to pertake all of the same Table where we a● pertake of the same Body which was broken for us and of the same Blood which was shed for us and to joyn all in the same holy Prayers and Supplications Intercessions and giving of thanks made as the Apos●le expres●ly commands for all men to be Subject and Obedient to ou● Spiritual Rulers and Governors who have derived their Power and Authority ●rom the Apostles by a due succession to this present Age in all things pertaining to Godly Life Decency and Order as the Catholicks did in the Primitive times this is true Christian Charity in the Language of the Scriptures and this is the Communion of Saints To hold Communion in the Articles of Faith only or what you call Fundamentals without any visible Sign of being in Communion with some Church that is a true Member of the Catholick Church is not sufficient to make a Catholick or one in the Communion of Saints though without such a Communion of Faith it is imposible to be so Corah and his Company were of the same Creed with Moses and Aaron yet were Schismatical wretches and were punished with a Vengeance The Don●ti●●s whom you acknowledge to be Scismaticks held the Fundamentals of Religion but their separate Communion from the Catholick Church upon pretence of greater purity excluding all other Churches as not Cat●o ick this made 'em Schismaticks in the judgment of the Fathers in the Catholick Church at that time So that all particular Churches who agree with the Primitive Catholick Church in all the Articles of Faith and in the external visible Worship and Service of God are true Members of the Catholick Church and in the Communion of Saints and no other The Church of England then having from the first planting of the Gospel here retained the Apostolick power of Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction and Ordaining Priests by an unterrupted Succession of Arch Bishops and Bishops in the right line from the Apostles to this present time and agreeing with and no way repugnant to the Primitive Catholick Church in Doctrin Discipline and Worship is truly a Member of the Universal Catholick Church out of which there is no Communion of Saints The necessary consequence whereof is that they who live within the Jurisdiction of the Church of England and refuse Communion with her in the external visible Worship and Service of God do exclude themselves from being Members of the Catholick Church or in the Communion of Saints and are consequently guilty of Schism The reason is plain because there is no other way for any to hold Communion with the Universal Catholick Church but

not assume that without Divine Authority and when you can make as signal a proof that your Authority is Divine we will no more blame you for Exercising in your Stable then Moses did them for Prophesying in the Camp In Page 8. you say I cannot believe that the greatest Worshipers of the Diana of their own Opinions will be so sottish as to brand those for Schismaticks who in every punctilio of Opinion are not exactly of the same Standard with themselves Wh●m you mean by the greatest Worshipers of the Diana of their own Opinions I take not upon me to tell but if by that saucy Language you mean the Bishops and the other inferior Clergy of the English Church I can answer for them that if the punctilios of Opinions you mean do not cause a Seperate Communion they will never censure that for Schism ●t is not Opinions differing in little things as you call 'em but the erronious and sinful Opinions that tend to Seperation from a truly Catholick Church that they of our Church to use your words brand with Schism men may differ in Opinion in speculative things and be Innocent but Opinions that break the Communion of Saints are Schism Pardon me if I give you a pleasant Instance your Father's Opinion was that it was best to put you to be a Lawyers or an Attorney's Clerk as I have heard my Uncle who was in loco parentis my Guardian his Opinion was that it was best to put me an Aprentice to a Mercer here were different Opinions or Apprehensions but no Schism In your Ninth Page you put a fair Question enough to make the World believe you to be a man of great sincerity viz. Whether a diversity or sep●ration of ●ommunion be the fo●malis ratio of Schism I affirm and have prov'd it is but you answer it with great partiality making a most unnatural Exposition of the Apostles words that can be 1 Cor. 1 10. Page 10. I beseech you Brethren that there be no divisions among you which you rightly say is in the Margin Schisms and pretend upon Enquiry to find what the Schism is by the next following Exhortation of the Apostle That ye all speak the same thin●s which you expound viz. In the Fundamental Doctrines of Christianity for in little things it can never be made a duty to be of the same Opinion since it is m●r●lly impossible And you name Estius but do not make him vouch for your Exposition if his Exposition agrees with yours which I rather think it does not it cannot be the Apostles meaning for you say Observe he does not oblige us to think the same things i. e. In your preaching and conver●e speak of th●se things only wherein you are agreed and f●r those things where●n you differ do not fall out and fight about them but love one another notwithstanding To this I Answer St. Paul is mightily obliged to you for this Exposition you say he doth not oblige us to think the same things but though your thoughts ●e diverse yet speak the same things what is this but that men may think one thing and speak another this does not agree with the sincerity of Saint Paul for this is down right Hypocrisie and Knavery I can make nothing else o●'t But you think to make it Orthodox by an i. e. In your preaching and converse speak those things only wherein you are agreed c. This Doctrine were it known would reconcile the World this would merit a Dispensation at Rome you may be admitted there upon these terms if in your Preaching and Converse you will speak of nothing but wherein you are all agreed The Pope they say is commonly an old ●ivil Gentleman and this new Doctrine of yours tending so much to Peace and to the stoping of the mouths of Hereticks who are apt to ●peak of things wherein they are not all agreed would move him to think of some preferment for you But if they at Rome should prove so inhumanely morose and sullen as to make your Journey thither unfortunate ●his Doctrine cannot fail of entertainment at Constantinople the Merchants who trade thither will assure you that the Mahomitans are very obliging to all those who preach and say nothing in converse but wherein all are agreed and you being withal a great abhorrer of Popish delusions they will nemine contradicente heartily agree with you therein and you being a Minister too as you say in your Enquiry page 27. And as such abliged to preach and to trade with that Talent you have received or you say there will be an uncomfortable account shortly especially say you if we look abroad and consider how the apparent necessities of precious Souls calls for our utmost diligence Sir there are abroad at Constantinople abundance of precious Souls who want your diligence Now you who say nothing in your preaching and converse but wherein all are agreed will oblige 'em to hear you and so you will gain an oppertunity to preach your great Gospel Truths to 'em among whom there 's nothing so much wanting one Voyage of you and all your Brethren with your Talents thither could not fail of great improvement that place totally wanting you and we having not nere so great occasion or necessity for you here it would look like a real sence of your Duty if you would Imbark thither to take care of the many precious Souls there who are like to miscary for want of you And pray consider our Church-men are so invincibly lazy they 'l never undertake it and if some of them should have the Courage alas they are so dull it would be to no purpose You are much more qualify'd for it who by Inspiration hold forth with such life and vigour so much more powerful that the success could not fail in you and beside all this there is no reason to fear that one Soul here would perish by your absence This Doctine of yours justly deserves this Harangue But does not this Exposition of yours barr all reasoning and lessen the use and power of preaching one main end and design whereof is to convince men of error and so to Unite their minds and affections by Uniting their Judgments and Understanding you say not one word of Union and Communion which is most strictly enjoyned in every Sentence in the Exhortation That there be no Divisions or Schisms which by the other Sentences the Apostle tells 'em how to prevent viz. that you all speak the same things that ye be perfectly joyn'd together in the same mind and in the same judgment now it 's impossible for people that speak the same things and are perfectly joyn'd together in the same mind and in the same judgment to have any Divisions or Schisms That learned and pious Doctor in our Church Doctor Hammond Familiar in Fathers and Councils hath this Paraphrase upon this Text That therefore which I first exhort you to and that with all earnestness as possible as