Panthenosia: The Composition of All Dissensions

the slower it was in coming. Therefore, since I and the other members of the church, together with the body itself, have been led until this day with such zeal against the members of Christ, or against individual men or many, that we have used only dissipation in the refutation of the members that are called foreign, I have decided, compelled by JESUS, to seek a method by which I may bring all the members of my JESUS into one, according to the example of nature and grace.

WHAT THE HOLY AND

customary method of uniting in the church

of God is.

Since the primary powers in the world today agree on the principles first published by Blessed Moses, although the Ishmaelites differ somewhat, I shall take those things which are in the act of divine law as granted, intending to satisfy elsewhere, if need be, those even further from this truth. Although, therefore, Cain might have deserved to be entirely excommunicated by his father for fratricide, as a rotten member of the church, yet it is not written that this was done. From the silence of Scripture, a strong argument is taken. Nor is any curse found before the end of the law of nature against Ham, for a cause far lighter than fratricide would have been, although there is little juice in that letter. When Abraham was chosen by God to restore piety through faith, which is the daughter of sin, he did not excommunicate his home-born servants, but circumcised them together, of whatever rite.