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A70371	The present separation self-condemned and proved to be schism as it is exemplified in a sermon preached upon that subject / by Mr. W. Jenkyn ; and is further attested by divers others of his own persuasion all produced in answer to a letter from a friend.	Jane, William, 1645-1707.; Jenkyn, William, 1613-1685.; S. R. To his worthy friend H. N.; Brinsley, John, fl. 1581-1624.; H. N.	1678 (1678)	Wing J454; ESTC R18614	63,527	154

what in another case he once said in his Sermon of the Saints Worth pag. 11. viz. If a man takes the Picture of another he will not take it of his Back-side Leg or Hand or the like but of his Face his beautifullest Part yet that you and others will observe it that the World be no more troubled with such Narratives as can serve to no good End but will effectually promote a bad which is to expose Religion and make it mean and contemptible For my part I could heartily wish that all Differences about little things were laid aside it being as he observes pag. 252. on Jude very unsuitable that a greater Fire should be employed in roasting of an Egg than an Ox and to be more contentious for Bubbles than Blessedness As for greater Differences I could as heartily wish they were composed that the Love of God did more encrease and that would be the encrease of Vnity For what he saith Vol. 2. on Jude pag. 630. is very true The preserving of our Love to God is an excellent preservative against Sectaries and false Teachers He who loves God will fear to break the Vnity and Peace of the Church I cannot conclude better As for the great Case I refer you to the Sermon it self by which methinks I could stand and fall as being confident that either that will justifie Mr. Jenkin or that he will be able to justifie that and so shall be impatient till you give your Opinion of it to SIR Your Servant H. N. THE SERMON JUDE ver 19. These be they who separate themselves sensual having not the Spirit IN the 17 verse Jude produceth the Testimony of the Apostles of Jesus Christ in confirmation of what he had before said In which Testimony I note five Particulars 1. To whom it is commended to his beloved 2. How it was to be improved by remembring it 3. From whom it proceeded the Apostles of our Lord Jesus 4. Wherein it consisted in a Prediction That there should be mockers walking after their ungodly lusts 5. To whom it is opposed viz. to these Seducers These are they who separate themselves In which Words the Apostle shews That these who separate themselves from the Church were Scorners and that these who were sensual and void of the Spirit did follow their ungodly lusts Or in the Words Jude expresseth 1. The Sin of these Seducers in separating themselves 2. The Cause thereof which was 1. Their being sensual And 2. Their not having the Spirit For the first their Separation Two things are here to be opened 1. What the Apostle here intends by separating themselves 2. Wherein the Sinfulness of it consists 1. For the first The Original word may signifie the unbounding of a thing and the removing of a thing from those Bounds and Limits wherein it was set and placed c. Or it imports the parting and separating of one thing from another by Bounds and Limits put between them and the putting of Bounds and Limits for distinction and separation between several things it being thus a Resemblance taken from Fields or Countries which are distinguished and parted from each other by certain Boundaries and Land-marks set up to that end and thus it 's commonly taken by Interpreters in this place wherein these Seducers may be said to separate themselves divide or bound themselves from others either first Doctrinally or secondly Practically 1. Doctrinally by false and Heretical Doctrines whereby they divided themselves from the Truth and Faithful who were guided by the Truth of Scripture and walked according to the Rule of the Word c. 2. Practically they might separate themselves as by Bounds and Limits 1. By Prophaneness and living in a different way from the Saints namely in all loosness and uncleanness 2. By Schismaticalness and making of separation from and divisions in the Church Because they proudly despised the Doctrines or Persons of the Christians as contemptible and unworthy or because they would not endure the holy severity of the Churches Discipline they saith Calvin departed from it They might make Rents and Divisions in the Church by Schismatical withdrawing themselves from Fellowship and Communion with it Their Heresies were perverse and damnable Opinions their Schism was a perverse separation from Church-communion The former was in Doctrinals the latter in Practicals The former was opposite to Faith this latter to Charity By Faith all the Members are united to the Head by Charity one to another And as the breaking of the former is Heresie so their breaking of the latter was Schism And this Schism stands in the dissolving the Spiritual Band of Love and Union among Christians and appears in the withdrawing from the performance of those Duties which are both the Signs of and Helps to Christian Vnity as Prayer Hearing Receiving of Sacraments c. For because the dissolving of Christian Vnion chiefly appears in the undue separation from Church-communion therefore this rending is rightly called Schism It is usually said to be twofold Negative and Positive 1. Negative is when there is onely simplex secessio when there is onely a bare secession a peaceable and quiet withdrawing from Communion with a Church without making any head against that Church from which the departure is 2. Positive is when Persons so withdrawing do so consociate and draw themselves into a distinct and opposite Body setting up a Church against a Church or as Divines express it from Augustine an Altar against an Altar And this it is which in a peculiar manner and by way of eminency is called by the name of Schism and becomes sinful either in respect first of the groundlesness or secondly the manner thereof 1. The groundlesness when there is no casting of Persons out of the Church by an unjust Censure of Excommunication no departure by unsufferable Persecution no Heresie nor Idolatry in the Church maintained no necessity if Communion be held with a Church of communicating in its Sins and Corruptions 2. The manner of Separation makes it unlawful when 't is made without due endeavour and waiting for Reformation of the Church from which the departure is and such a rash departure is against Charity which suffers both much and long all tolerable things It is not presently distasted when the justest occasion is given it first useth all possible means of remedy The Chyrurgeon reserves Dismembring as the last remedy It looks upon a sudden breaking off from Communion with a Church which is a Dismembring not as Chyrurgery but Butchery not as medicinal but cruel 2. The Sinfulness of this Schismatical separation appears several ways I shall not spend time to compare it with Heresie though some have said that Schism is the greater Sin of the two August cont Donat. lib. 2. cap. 6. tells the Donatists that Schism was a greater Sin than that of the Traditores who in time of Persecution through fear delivered up their Bibles to the Persecutors to be burnt A Sin at which the

Donatists took so much offence that it was the ground of their separation But to pass by these things By these three Considerations especially the sinfulness of Schism shews it self In respect of 1. Christ 2. The Parties separating 3. Those from whom they separate 1. In respect of Christ it is 1. An horrible Indignity offered to his Body it dividing Christ as the Apostle speaks 1 Cor. 1. 15. and makes him to appear the Head of two Bodies How monstrous and dishonourable is the very conceit hereof 2. It 's Rebellion against his Command his great Command of Love The Grace of Love is by some called the Queen of Graces and it 's greater than Faith in respect of its Object not God onely but Man its duration which is eternal its manner of working not in a way of receiving Christ as Faith but of giving out the Soul to him and the Command of Love is the greatest Command in respect of its comprehensiveness it taking in all the Commandments the end of them all being Love and it being the fulfilling of them all 3. It 's opposite to one great End of Christ's greatest Undertaking his Death which was that all his Saints should be one 4. It tends to frustrate his Prayer for Unity among Saints John 17. and endeavours that Christ may not be heard by his Father 5. It opposeth his Example By this shall all men saith he know that ye are my disciples if ye love one another Love is the Livery and Cognisance which Christ gives to every Christian If there be no Fellowship among Christians there 's no following of Christ. Let this mind be in you that was in Christ Jesus Phil. 2. 5. 6. It 's injurious to his Service and Worship How can Men pray if in wrath and division How can Christians fight with Heaven and prevail when they are in so many divided Troops What worthiness can be in those Communicants who celebrate a Feast of Love with Hearts full of rancour and malice 2. In respect of the Parties separating For 1. It causeth a decay of all Grace By divisions among our selves we endeavour to divide our selves from him in and from whom is all our fulness All wickedness follows contention Upon the Stock of Schism commonly Heresie is grafted There is no Schism saith Jerome but ordinarily it inventeth and produceth some Heresie that so the Separation may seem the more justifiable The Novatians and Donatists from Schism fell to Heresies Our Times sadly comment upon this Truth they equally arising to both The farther Lines are distanced one from another the greater is their distance from the Center And the more divided Christians are among themselves the more they divide themselves from Christ. Branches divided from the Tree receive no Sap from the Root The Soul gives Life to Members which are joyned together not pluck'd asunder 2. Schism is the greatest disgrace to the Schismaticks A Schismatick is a Name much disowned because very dishonourable All Posterity loads the name of sinful Separatists with disgrace and abhorrency He spoke truly who said The sin and misery of Schism cannot be blotted out with the blood of Martyrdom He cannot honourably give his Life for Christ who makes divisions in his Church for which Christ gave his Life 3. In respect of the Church from whom this separation is made For 1. It 's injurious to the Honour of the Church whose greatest glory is Vnion How can a Body be rent and torn without the impairing of its Beauty Besides how disgraceful an imputation is cast upon any Church when we profess it unworthy for any to abide in it that Christ will not and therefore that we cannot have Communion with it 2. It 's injurious to the peace and quietness of the Church Schismaticks more oppose the Peace of the Church than do Heathens If the natural Body be divided and torn pain and smart must needs follow The tearing and rending of the Mystical Body goes to the Heart of all sensible Members They often cause the Feverish Distempers of Hatred Wrath Seditions Envyings Murders Schism in the Church puts the Members out of joynt and disjoynted Bones are painful All my bones saith David are out of joynt Church-divisions cause sad thoughts of heart True Members are sensible of these Schisms though artificial ones feel nothing None rejoyce but our Enemies Oh impiety to make Satan musick and to make mourning for the Saints 3. It 's opposite to the Edification of the Church Division of Tongues hindred the building of Babel and doubtless division in Hearts Tongues Hands Heads must needs hinder the building of Jerusalem While Parties are contending Churches and Commonwealths suffer In troublous times the Walls and Temple of Jerusalem went but slowly on Though Jesus Christ the Head be the onely Fountain of Spiritual Life yet the usual way of Christs strengthning it and perfecting thereof is the fellowship of the Body that by what every joynt supplies the whole may be encreased When Church-members are put out of joynt they are made unserviceable and unfit to perform their several Offices They who were wont to joyn in Prayer Sacraments Fasting and were ready to all mutual Offices of Love are now fallen off from all 4. It 's opposite to the future Estate of the Church in Glory In Heaven the Faithful shall be of one mind We shall all meet saith the Apostle in the unity of the faith Ephes 4. 13. when we are come to our Manly age Wrangling is the work of our Childhood Luther and Calvin are of one mind in Heaven though their Disciples wrangle here on Earth Observations Obs 1. Naturally men love to be boundless they will not be kept within any Spiritual compass Obs 2. Our separation from Rome cannot be charged with Schism This will evidently appear if we consider either the ground or the manner of our Separation 1. For the ground and cause thereof Our separation from Rome was not for some slight and tolerable Errours but damnable Heresies and gross Idolatries The Heresies Fundamental and Idolatries such as those who hold Communion with her cannot but partake of In respect of both which the Church of Rome was first apostatized before ever we separated Nor was there any separation from it as it had any thing of Christ or as it was Christian but as it was ROMAN and POPISH c. 2. For the second the manner of our Separation it was not uncharitable rash heady and unadvised nor before all means were used for the Cure and Reformation of the Romanists by the discovery of their Errours that possibly could be thought of notwithstanding all which though some have been enforced to an acknowledgement of them they still obstinately persist in them Our famous godly and learned Reformers would have healed Babylon but she is not healed Many skilful Physicians have had her in hand but like the Woman in the Gospel she grew so much the worse By Prayer Preaching Writing yea by sealing their

is called by the name of Schism pag. 22. Mr. Brinsley There is to use his terms Camero a negative and a positive Separation The former is simplex secessio when one or more do quietly and peaceably withdraw themselves from Communion with a Church not making head against that Church from which they are departed The other when persons so withdrawing do consociate and draw themselves into a distinct and opposite Body setting up a Church against a Church This is that which Augustine and other Divines after him call the setting up of an Altar against an Altar And this is it saith that judicious Author which in a peculiar manner and by way of eminency is called by the name of Schism pag. 16. Mr. Jenkin Schism beeomes sinful either in respect 1. of the groundlesness or 2. the manner thereof 1. The groundlesness when there is no casting of persons out of the Church by an unjust Censure of Excommunication no departure by unsufferable Persecution no Heresie nor Idolatry in the Church maintained 2. The manner of Separation makes it unlawful when 't is made without due endeavour and waiting for Reformation of the Church from which the departure is and such a rash departure is against Charity which suffers both much and long all tolerable things It is not presently distasted when the justest occasion is given it first useth all possible means of remedy The Chyrurgeon reserves Dismembring as the last remedy It looks upon a sudden breaking off from Communion with a Church which is a dismembring not as Chyrurgery but Butchery pag. 23. Mr. Brinsley Vnwarrantable either for ground or manner The former an unjust the latter a rash Separation each a Schism Vnjust when there is no Persecution no spreading Error or Heresie no Idolatry 2. The manner which if sudden and heady without due endeavour and expectance of Reformation in that Church it may be a rash and consequently an unwarrantable Separation inasmuch as it is opposite to Charity it being the nature of Charity to suffer much and long all things which are sufferable It is not presently distasted so as to fly off upon every small and trivial occasion no nor yet upon a just and weighty one without first assaying all possible means of remedy So deals the wary and careful Chyrurgeon with his Patient not presently fall to dismembring reserving it for the last remedy So deals Charity by the Church not presently separate and break off Communion which is the dismembring of a Church No this saith Camero is not Chyrurgia but Carnificina which Mr. Cotton englisheth rightly not Chyrurgery but Butchery pag. 24 25. Mr. Jenkin I shall not spend time to compare it with Heresie though some have said that Schism is the greater sin of the two Aug. contr Don. l. 2. c. 6. tells the Donatists that Schism was a greater sin than that of the Traditores who in time of Persecution through fear delivered their Bibles to Persecutors to be burnt A sin at which the Donatists took so much offence that it was the ground of their Separation pag. 24. Mr. Brinsley Musculus informs me of some who in point of sinfulness have compared Schism with Heresie and others who have aggravated it beyond it as the greater evil of the two Augustine tells the Donatists contr Don. l. 2. c. 6. that their Schism was a greater sin than that which they took such high offence at and which was the ground of their separation viz. the sin of the Traditores such as in time of Persecution had through fear delivered up their Bibles to the Persecutors to be burnt pag. 17 18. Mr. Jenkin In respect of Christ 1. It 's an horrible indignity offered to his Body as the Apostle speaks 1 Cor. 1. 15. and makes him to appear the Head of two Bodies How monstrous and dishonourable is the very conceit hereof 2. It 's rebellion against his Command his great Command of Love The Grace of Love is by some called the Queen of Graces and it 's greater than Faith in respect of its Object not God onely but Man its Duration which is eternal its manner of working not in a way of receiving Christ as Faith but of giving the Soul to him pag. 24. Mr. Brinsley It is injurious to Christ who seemeth by this means to be as it were divided So Paul urgeth it Is Christ divided Himself hereby made the Head of two disagreeing Bodies which is dishonourable and monstrous to conceive of him pag. 19. Mr. Brinsley It 's opposite to so great a Grace as Charity Charity the Queen of Graces greater than Faith 1. In regard of the Object Faith respecteth God onely but Charity both God and Man 2. In regard of the manner of working Faith worketh intramittendo by receiving and letting in Christ and his Benefits but Charity extramittendo by giving out the Soul 3. In regard of duration Charity is for eternity p. 18. Mr. Jenkin By Divisions among our selves we endeavour to divide our selves from him in and from whom is all our fulness Upon the Stock of Schism commonly Heresie is grafted There is no Schism saith Jerome but ordinarily it inventeth and produceth some Heresie that so the Separation may seem the more justifiable The Novatians and Donatists from Schism fell to Heresies Our Times sadly comment upon this Truth they equally arising unto both pag. 25 26. Mr. Brinsley By dividing themselves from the Body they are in a dangerous way to divide themselves from the Head Schism maketh way to Heresie So Jerome There is no Schism but ordinarily it inventeth and broacheth some Heresie that so the Separation may seem the more justifiable A Truth sufficiently experimented in those ancient Schismaticks the Novatians and Donatists who from Schism fell to be Authors or Defenders of Heretical Opinions We have a late and dreadful Instance pag. 22. Mr. Jenkin It s injurious to the peace and quietness of the Church If the natural Body be divided and torn pain and smart must needs follow The tearing and rending of the mystical Body goes to the Heart of all sensible Members they often cause the Feverish Distempers of Hatred Wrath Seditions Envying Murders Schism in the Church puts the Members out of joynt and disjoynted Bones are painful All my bones saith David are out of joynt Church-Divisions cause sad thoughts of Heart pag. 27. Mr. Brinsley The Church is hereby disquieted Even as it is in the natural Body if there be a solutio continui so as it be divided it breedeth smart and pain The mystical Body cannot be rent and torn by Divisions but it goeth to the heart of all the sensible Members The divisions of Reuben were great thoughts of heart oft-times breeding those Feverish distempers of Hatred Variance Wrath Seditions I and Murders too p. 21. Mr. Brinsley Schism in the Church puts the Members out of joynt Bones out of joynt are painful Thence David borrows this expression All my bones are out of joynt Such are Schisms in