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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29830	Catholick schismatology, or, An account of schism and schismaticks in the several ages of the world : to which are prefixed some remarks on Mr. Bolde's plea for moderation / J.B.	J. B. (J. Browne)	1685 (1685)	Wing B5116; ESTC R37483	61,193	209

but false lights and wandering Stars that seduce and mislead into error so wandering Stars for the irregularity of their motion they separate themselves on the account of greatest purity yet allow themselves in greatest Impieties like those who have a Conscience so tender as to boggle at a Ceremony and yet so tough as to bear a Schism and make light of the great Doctrine of the Gospel that great essential of true Religion Subjection for Conscience sake Dr. Manton 4. Their tumultuous Turbulence verse 13. raging waves of the Sea so called for their boysterous Violence saies Dr. Manton in enraging mens minds against all Government and Rule in Church and State putting all Places into Confusion and Combustion by Schism and Sedition Whenever the Winds of Power Mr. Jenkins on the place Ecclesiastical or Civil Word or Sword blow against the Tide of their Factious Errors they presently grow boisterous like raging Waves of the Sea 5. A fifth mark the Apostle gives of the Gnostick Sectary is their proud scorn and contempt of others for which they are called mockers verse 18. They having incircled their heads with their own Phantastick rays and having swoln their imaginations into a self-conceit of their greater Spirituality and more Knowledg than others did hereupon separate themselves and despise the true Church and all sober Members of it as a People of low form and unacquainted with the Heighths and Spiritualities of the Gospel 6. A sixth Character St. Jude gives the Gnostick-Sectary is their specious pretences and shew of Piety and Knowledg above others notwithstand their emptiness of it For which they are called Clouds without water verse 12. with the specious Title of the spiritual and knowing People the only true Church and People of God they reconciled Rebellion and all Licentiousness were Religious without Religion Godly without Goodness Christians without Christianity Clouds without Water Clouds which tho shining with a counterfeit Light which nothing exceeds but the Sun that lent it yet when turned black and grown numerous discharge themselves of most dangerous and terrible Principles of Thunder and Lightning Storms and Tempests on the places of Religion the High-Towers of Government and whatever is great and eminent 7. Another Character St. Jude gives of these Separatists of his time is their successesness in projecting against Governors and Government v. 11. They perished in the gainsaying of Korah 8. Their Ignorant malice ver 10. They speak evil of things they know not 9. Obstinate in their perswasion v. 16. Walking after their own lusts 10. Canting and Mysteriousness of Phrases ver 16. Their mouth speaks great swelling words With as many more distinctive Characters which the Apostle Jude gives in that one Chapter whereby to know the Gnosticks the Schismaticks of his time who admired themselves and withdrew from the Communian of the best Christians under pretence of greater knowledg and holiness than others NOVATIANS THis Sect commenced when Decius was Emperor Danaeus's comment on St. Aug. de Haeres cap. 38. and Cornelius Bishop of Rome in the year of Christ 220 which was 78 years before that of the Donatists They had the Denomination from Novatus the first Author of the Sect who was a Presbyter of St. Cyprian Bishop of Carthage and afterwards by Cornelius Bishop of Rome was made a Presbyter of the Church But saies Danaeus on St. Augustine Ad Episcopatum aspirans dolore repulsae c. Aspiring at the Bishoprick of Rome i. e. endeavouring to thrust Cornelius out for holding Communion as they falsly accused him with Trophimus one of the Thurificati and to make himself Bishop in his stead was sadly disappointed in the attempt whereupon in grief and discontent at the disappointment he joyns himself with Novatianus once his Scholar and afterward his Fellow Presbyter who having drawn many after them Secessionem ab Orthodoxis fecerant seorsim suas Ecclesias Basilicas habebant Refused Communion with the Orthodox and met in their Basilicae which St. Augustine frequently calls Conventicles They made the Separation on the occasion of the Orthodox Bishops receiving lapsed Penitents into Communion in opposition to which Novatus and his Adherents taught that the Church of God was to consist of none but Saints and therefore if through infirmity or the rage of Persecution any lapsed into Idolatry or the like gross Sin after Baptism they would never receive them more into Communion with them but gave them up as damned Persons and such as were never capable of Repentance notwithstanding the greatest and most infallible signs of true repentance that could be shewn Upon this most strict and rigid most censorious and uncharitable Opinion they separated from the Orthodox Christians because they received the Penitents into Communion upon sufficient Evidence of their Repentance given And this was soon improved into such a Schism that lasted from the Reign of Decius to the Reign of Archadius which was a 148 years and much longer All that while disturbing the Peace of Church and State to the great prejudice of Christianity in most places of the World especially Italy These Sectaries were also called Cathari i. e. Puritans a name not given them by others but arrogated to themselves saith St. Augustine Se ipsos isto nomine quasi propter munditiem superbissime Lib. de Haeres odiosissimè nominant They were so called says his Commentator because they separated from the Orthodox as more Pure and Holy as the only true Church and People of God accounting all the Church-Assemblies of the Orthodox Christians polluted with the Communion of the lapsed Penitents on which very account Danaeus calls them Fanaticks Comment on Aug. de Haeres c. 38. Haecuna ratio vel maxime Fanaticos istos impulit ut se Catharos appellarent And on which very account the Orthodox Christians were called Catholicks in opposition to that uncharitable Opinion of the Novatians Donatists and other Sectaries of old as the Papists do of late in confining the only true Church and People of God to their own party These Novatians or Kathari looked upon the poor Orthodox Penitents as so many Reprobates calling them in scorn Thurificati but themselves and their party Purificati and as Danaus Ibid. Sub specioso illo Purificatorum sanctorum nomine fuco turpissima tum in Doctrina tum in vita scelera tegebant That under the specious name and disguise of the Purificati and the Saints they did cloak the basest Villanies both in Life and Doctrine By Doctrine meaning chiefly that of their barbarous rigor to'ards the lapsed Penitents For they were at first for the most part sound in the Faith As St. Augustine said of the Donatists De sola communione infaeliciter litigârunt They separated on the account of not receiving lapsed Penitents into Church-Communion on the account of their conceited purity above all others which is that Danaeus calls Perniciosissimum illud dogma quod in ecclesiae