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AN Apologetical Vindication OF THE Church of England.
Chap. I. Shewing from Reason, and the History of the Christian Religion, that all Churches are subject to the Mis∣fortune of Schisms and Divisions.
1. I Will shew from Reason, and the History of the Christian Religion, that all Churches are sub∣ject to the sad misfortune of Schisms and Divisi∣ons, and to the consummation of them in op∣posite Communions. This, to argue first from Reason, is as demonstrable of Ecclesiastical, as Civil, or Military Societies, men being as subject by their own evil Passions, and the Temptations of the Devil, to mu∣tiny, and make Insurrections in Churches, as in Camps, or Cities, or other Fraternities of men. Nay it being more for the Interest of Satan, and also more easie to di∣vide a Church, then a Kingdom, or a Camp, men are so much the more in danger of being tempted to do the one, rather then the other: and accordingly we find