_Soc._ [87]----_But the Donatists did cut off from the Body of Christ, and the hope of Salvation, the Church from which they separated, which is the property of Schismaticks._----And [88]----_They were justly charged with Schism, because they confined the Catholick Church within their own bounds._ But as Dr. _Ferne_ saith[89]--_Had the Donatists only used their liberty and judgment in that practice of re-baptizing Hereticks, leaving other Churches to their liberty; and (though thinking them in an error for admitting Hereticks, without baptizing them, yet) willing to have Communion with them, as parts of the Catholick Church (saving the practices wherein they differed), then had they not been guilty of Schism._ In that which I hold I only follow my Conscience, condemn not the Churches holding otherwise: On the other side [90]_Christ hath forbid me under pain of damnation to profess what I believe not_ [be it small or great] _and consequently under the same penalty hath obliged me to leave the Communion, in which I cannot remain without the Hypocritical Profession of such a thing, which I am convinced to be erroneous._ [91]_At least this I know, that the Doctrin which I have chosen, to me_ seems _true, and the contrary, which I have forsaken,_ seems _false: and therefore, without remorse of Conscience, I may profess that, but this I cannot: and a separation, for preserving my Conscience, I hope will never be judged causeless._ §. 33. _Prot._ At this rate none will be a Schismatick, but he who knows he erreth (_i. e._ not who holdeth, but only who professeth an error); or who knows, that the point, for the non-conformity to which, required of him, he deserts the Church, is a _Truth_, and the contrary, which he maintains, an error. But Doctor _Hammond_[92] tells you. _That he that doth not communicate with those_ [I suppose he means Superiors] _the condition of whose Communion contains nothing really erroneous or sinful, though the doctrin so proposed as the condition of their Communion, be apprehended by him, to whom it is thus proposed, to be false, remains in Schism._ _Soc._ And at this rate, all those, who separate from the Church, requiring their assent to what is indeed a truth, will be Schismaticks, (and that, whether in a point Fundamental, or not Fundamental,) though they have used all the industry, all the means they can (except this, the relying on their Superiors judgment) not to err; unless you will say, that all truths, even not Fundamental, are in Scripture so clear, that none using a right industry, can (neither) err in them; which no _Chillingworth_ hath maintained hitherto. §. 34. _Prot._ But we may let this pass; for, your separation was in a point perspicuous enough in Scripture (and so you void of such excuse): was in a point Essential and Fundamental, and in which a wrong belief destroys any longer Communion of a particular Person or Church, with the Catholick.