_Soc._ This I utterly deny; nor see I by what way this can ever be proved against me, for you can assign no Ecclesiastical Judge that can distinguish Fundamentals, Necessaries, or Essentials, from those points that are not so, as hath been shewed already. And as Dr. _Stillingfleet_[93] urgeth concerning Heresie, so may I concerning Schism:----What are the measures whereby we ought to judge, what things are Essential to the being of Christianity, or of the Church? Whether must the _Church's judgment_ be taken, or every _mans own judgment_? if the _former_, the Ground of Schism lies still in the Church's definitions, contrary to what Protestants affirm: if _the latter_; then no one can be a Schismatick, but he, that opposeth that of which _he is_, or _may be convinced_, that it is a Fundamental, or essential matter of Faith. If he be only a Schismatick, that opposeth that, of which _he is convinced_; then no man is a Schismatick, but he that goes against his present Judgment; and so there will be few Schismaticks in the world; If he, that opposeth that, which _he may be convinced_ of; then again, it is that which _he may be convinced_ of, either in the Church's judgment or in his own: If in the Church's, it comes to the same issue, as in the former: If _in his own_; how I pray, shall I know, that I may be convinced of what, using a due indeavour, I am not convinced already? or, how shall I know, when a due industry is used? and if I cannot know this, how should I ever settle my self unless it be upon _Authority_, which you allow not. Again, I am taught, that any particular, whether Person or Church, may judge for themselves with the _Judgment_ of _Discretion_: And in the matter of Christian Communion,----[94]_That nothing can be more unreasonable, than that the Society_ [suppose it be a Council] _imposing conditions of its Communion_ [suppose the Council of _Nice_ imposing Consubstantiality so] _should be Judge, whether those conditions be just and equitable or no: And especially in this case, where a considerable Body of Christians judge such things required to be unlawful conditions of Communion, what justice or reason is there, that the party accused should sit judge in his own cause?_ _Prot._ By this way no _Separatist_ can ever be a _Schismatick_, if he is constituted the judge, whether the reason of his separation is just. _Soc._ And in the other way, there can never be any just cause of separation at all, if the Church-Governors, from whom I separate, are to judge, whether that be an error, for which I separate. §. 35.