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Owen mediates the charge of schism brought against those who sought to reform the Church according to Scripture.

appear. Now, the several officers, with their distinct employments in and about this service, were so punctually prescribed and limited by Almighty God, that as none of them might ἀλλοτριοεπισκοπεῖν, without presumptuous impiety, intrude into the function of others not allotted to them, as Num. 16:1–10; so none of their brethren might presume to intrude into the least part of their office without manifest sacrilege, Josh. 22:11–20. True it is, that there is mention of divers in the Scripture that
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