14 CHURCH UNITY 



terian, and Episcopalian, were characterized 

 as the wildest hallucination, a mere deli- 

 rious dream of the members of a diseased 

 body saying one to another, "I have no 

 need of thee." Doctrinal distinctions, 

 made by teachers much less known than 

 Luther, Calvin, or Wesley, met with the 

 stern rebuke, " Is Christ divided ? Were 

 ye baptised into the name of Paul?" 

 Ritual usages, much more menacing than 

 those which now separate Baptist and 

 Pedobaptist, Evangelist and Sacerdotalist, 

 were settled by the apostles and elders in 

 the first Council of Jerusalem without the 

 unchristian results of schism and sectari- 

 anism. And this organic unity of the 

 Apostolic Church was maintained unbroken 

 for centuries afterwards, — at least until 

 the Council of Nice. 



ORGANIC UNITY MAINTAINED BY THE 

 REFORMERS 



In the third place, this organic unity was 

 never repudiated by the Protestants or 

 Reformers of later time. As those words 

 imply, had it been possible, they would 

 have remained in the Roman Church, 

 simply protesting against its errors and 



