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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

Dissenters and after a Paranthesis are commonly charged with be●ng Sch●smatical the great out-cry is that we leave the Church and the un●hanking Mobile who are so well taught as to know no other Churches but the ●ublick places of Worship are easily enduced to believe it as if it were ●chism to Worship God any where else let the Worship there be what it ●ill You cannot be without the Leaven of Reflection for all your pretend●d Candor and Charity is not this highly reproachful to say that the Unthinking Mobile c. are easily induced to believe it that is that ●our Meeting is Schism What can you mean but the Pastors and Mini●ters of our Church seduce the Mobile to believe that which is false and ●he unthinking Mobile are easily enduced This is a pritty falacy by ●his you would perswade all if you could that none but the Mobile believe ●ou are Schismaticks all the Privy Council the Judges Universities ●nd Magestrates and all above the Mobile have no such thoughts this ●s a random Shot Pray how many besides the unthinking Mobile can you boast of in your Communion God knows you have too much to ●oast of if you have any however your boasting in this is much more vain than God be thanked you have real cause for and all those Poor Souls you have Captivated and lead astray out of Christs Fould are ●gnorant or Giddy-minded and it is done under pretence of more Spiritual Edification and Holiness which is but the Counterfeit of them which glitters with greater Lustre it being the Nature of all Counterfeit things so to do to the Undescerning and Ignorant than the real just as Quack Mountebanks with cunning devised Words and Fables perswade the Moible that their Medicines have much more the Virtue of Healing and that their skill and judgement far surmounts the truly Learned and Judicious Phisitians But God I hope will consider their simplicity and have mercy on them though I wish they would consider what our Saviour saith That if the Blind lead the Blind both fall into the Ditch Then you say as ●f it were Schism to Worship God any where else let the Worship there be what it will It would occasion too long a discourse to pursue I will therefore only mention it The Samaritans in the time of our Saviour were as fully perswaded that their Altar and Worship was as true and acceptable to God as that at Jerusalem as you are that yours is more pure than that of our Church yet our Blessed Saviour tells the Woman St. John 4. v. 22. Ye Worship ye know not what we saith he know what we Worship c. The true reason why the Samaritans Worshiped they knew not what was because it was a separate Altar and a separate Worship from that at Jerusalem this was Schism and had the same effects as your separate Communion hath in this Kingdom viz. Contentions breach of Charity alienation of Affection c. And I do not see but as it was Schism in the Jewish which was the Type of the Christian Church to set up a separate Altar and Worship so it must be Schism to set up a separate Table and separate way of Worship in the Christian Church which is the Anti-type I mention this because you in the 32 page say The common Out-cry is that it is the setting up Altar against Altar supposeing your thoughts here might be upon Mr Dodwells one Altar and one Priesthood as that which makes the Out-cry against you though the Term of Setting up Altar against Altar was used by many of the Fathers in the Primitive Times against Schismaticks in their days whom he follows But Sir If you without prejudice will seriously peruse that Book you will find such weighty reasoning that you will never more despise it and if you cannot but despise it you will perpetuate your Name amongst the most Learned and Judicious above all your Tribe that have been or are and proselite the Diocese besides if you will Answer that Book However it will be a sufficient Answer for me to say it is not the place that makes the Schism but the separate Communion for if you use your way of Worship in one of our Churches it would not abate or excuse the Schism and so if you were rightly ordained and should use the same way of Worship which we use in our Churches and is required by the Church in your Stable and through some Providence necessitated to such a place no one of our Church would nor any other justly could charge you with Schism In your 25 page Those who will allow themselves the Liberty of an Vnpre●udiced thought cannot but see the difference so small that as long as we be●ieve the same Christian Faith and agree in the same Protestant abhorence of Papal delusions we may easily be looked upon as one and the same as well as two several Parish Churches may especially being Vnited under the care and protection of one Protestant King and Members of the same Common-●ealth Difference in small and little things comes oft in my way I cannot but wonder that we who agree in the Belief of those High and Sacred Mysteries of Faith so contrary to Flesh and Blood and so transcendant above Natural reason which cannot be wrought in us but by the Grace of God and the operation of his Spirit and yet that even among these there should be men of high and preverse minds sensual and such who cause Division As the Donatists who did separate and ●rend the Church and yet believed the same Fundamental Faith and were Zealous to use your own Words for the great Gospel Truths but their separation was as yours is for little things How would you have your Separate Communion to be looked upon as one and the same Church as well as two several Parish Churches When it is apparent that you do Rob our Parish Churches All you can and would Monopolize all our Parishes into your Communion and yet forsooth would be looked upon as one of our Parish Churches This is a Paradox which pass●th all understanding And it is as wonderful that the having the same Protestant abhorence of Popish delusions should be a bar to Schism a man may be an Arian Socinian ay or an Atheist if he can but abhor Popery and yet be free from Schism is this one of your great Gospel Truths Is this any thing like Primitive Doctrine that Heresy Atheism Quakerism and all other divided and currupt Opinions so they but abhor Popery may be looked upon as one and the same Church is new and strange Divinity Sir all that follows in your Book being of the same spinning I will spare my self from any more trouble and expose you no far●her The Reader will be able to Judge whether I have or not given you a truer Notion of Schism than that in your Enquiry and sufficiently convicted your unskilfulness in expounding Scripture and fully Answered you I will only add