For many ages the Jewish Christians entertained a warm attachment for the obsolete institutions of Moses. Indeed I have been credibly informed that in a city of the West a congregation was divided in twain upon the ground of introducing the practice of giving out two lines of the Psalm instead of the one, which the clerk in the solemn, which is the nasal tone of the conventicle, was wont to do. And if the history of divided Christendom was now faithfully written, it would be found that in most cases the different sects were made pretty much in the same way. Destroy not with thy meat him for whom Christ died. Now walkest thou not charitably.
Sectarianism is one of the works of the flesh.
Compare 1 Cor. We are, then, warned by these considerations against any thing which would have a tendency to separate the body of Christ. We should occasion ourselves to look at such a result as one of the greatest calamities which could befall I us, and as under the highest obligations to preserve the unity of the church after the example and upon the same principles as exerted in the apostolic age. The hand of Douglas was his own. In the same manner would an Apostle have treated even a co-laborer if he had proved recreant to the cause, and have attempted to betray the interest of the Christian kingdom at the shrine of a party, or into the hands of the enemy.