Accordingly, all his conduct was directed to maintain every particular church in its due subordination to the Roman Church, to reconcile schismatics to it, to overcome the error and the obstinacy of heretics.
In restoring schismatics to unity he was in general successful.
So schismatics the plain believers quit, And are but damned for having too much wit.
An ordinary man," he wrote to Caryll, "would imagine the author plainly declared against these schismatics for quitting the true faith out of contempt of the understanding of some few of its believers.
But these believers are called 'dull,' and because I say that these schismatics think some believers dull, therefore these charitable well-disposed interpreters of my meaning say that I think all believers dull.
Those who had lately been designated as schismatics and fanatics were now dear fellow Protestants, weak brethren it might be, but still brethren, whose scruples were entitled to tender regard.
He gradually retrenched all the privileges which the schismatics enjoyed.
Each reader became an expounder, and new schismatics were busied with new heresies.
The Episcopal schismatics, thus reinforced, would probably have been as formidable to the new King and his successors as ever the Puritan schismatics had been to the princes of the House of Stuart.
The only fault which he found with that Act was that it was not sufficiently stringent, and that it left loopholes through which schismatics sometimes crept into civil employments.
Polemics= were constantly carried on with Nestorians, Monophysites and Monothelites, and fresh subjects of debate were found in the iconoclastic disputes, newly emerging dualistic sects, the Latin schismatics and the defenders of the union.
It was his word that roused the hearts of men throughout all Europe to undertake the second crusade, and that won many heretics and schismatics back to the bosom of the church.
Schismatics were to be stamped out as sternly as Papists and Prelatists; and by Schismatics were meant all men, members of their own Church no less than of others, who ventured to differ from them on any point of doctrine whatsoever.
All schismatics are enemies to the crown, and to religion.
Religion must be maintained, and schismatics cast out.
According to his own statement he quickly won over some sixteen thousand schismatics and neutrals, and the nature of his appeals to the passions of the hour may be guessed by his own report of a sermon in which he denounced Clement VII.
His real offence was his attacks on the schismatics and on the corruption of the clergy, but nothing of this appears in the articles.
Russians; but when these endeavors failed there was no hesitation in resorting to force, and the disappointed Gregory preached a crusade for the purpose of reducing the schismatics to obedience.
Antichrist, while his followers were all condemned schismatics and heretics; neutrals, moreover, were the worst of men and were deprived of all sacraments.
He promptly sent commissions for their trial, and they were duly excommunicated as schismatics and rebels, founders of a superstitious sect, and disseminators of false and pestiferous doctrines.
Strictly speaking, allschismatics and heretics were under ipso facto excommunication, but this could be disregarded if it was politic to do so, as when, in 1244, Innocent IV.
The same principle is extended by some moralists to the administration of Penance and Extreme Unction to schismatics and heretics who are in danger of death.
It is our will that heathen and schismatics be not only without the privileges but bound by, and subject to, various political burdens.
Gregory the Great had some success in drawing the schismatics into more friendly relations.
In answer to this question, as much as the capacity of my faith and the sanctity and truth of the divine Scriptures suggest, I say that no heretics and schismatics at all have any right to power.
The schismatics held in general the same faith as the main body of Christians.
Those whom Donatists baptize, they heal of the wound of idolatry or infidelity, but inflict a more grievous stroke in the wound of schism; for idolaters among God's people the sword destroyed, but schismatics the gaping earth devoured.
But the stiff-necked schismatics are still jealous of him, and hold aloof.
In Africa he extirpated the Donatists, converted many schismatics in Istria and the neighboring provinces; and reformed many grievous abuses in Gaul, whence he banished simony, which had almost universally infected that church.
He showed great moderation to the schismatics of Istria, and to the very Jews.
Did the sacrilege of schismatics defile Cyprian, or did it not?
But again, behold I see in the same unity that certain men think differently in this matter, and that, recognising in those who come from heretics and schismatics the baptism of Christ, they do not venture to baptize them afresh.
For we reply, We do not acknowledge any baptism of yours; for it is not the baptism of schismatics or heretics, but of God and of the Church, wheresoever it may be found, and whithersoever it may be transferred.
So in the points in which schismatics and heretics neither entertain different opinions nor observe different practice from ourselves, we do not correct them when they join us, but rather commend what we find in them.
Why then do not either heretics or schismatics receive anything heavenly, just as thorns or tares, like those who were without the ark received indeed the rain from the floods of heaven, but to destruction, not to salvation?
The apostle condemns, equally with all the wicked, those also who cause divisions, that is, schismatics and heretics.
The book, he said, represented rebels and schismatics as heroes and martyrs; and he would not sanction it for its weight in gold.
Such was the profundity and such the ingenuity of a writer whom the Jacobite schismatics justly regarded as one of their ablest chiefs.
Cyprian was the first to proclaim the identity of heretics andschismatics by making a man's Christianity depend on his belonging to the great episcopal church confederation.
Though we are by no means entitled to say that they acknowledged orthodox schismatics they did not yet venture to reckon them simply as heretics.
Under the reign of the Barbarians, the schismatics of Africa enjoyed an obscure peace of one hundred years; at the end of which we may again trace them by the fight of the Imperial persecutions.
It states, that neither as factious men desiring a popular party in the church, nor as schismatics aiming at the dissolution of the state ecclesiastical, they humbly desired the redress of some abuses.
Nay, I am told that in their conventicles the schismatics pray for him, that he may be brought back into the fold, and may become a second Moses, and lead them out of Egypt!
In the said city of Cambalech there is a sort of Christian schismatics whom they call Nestorians.
Because it is just to inflict the death penalty for crimes against the common law, it does not follow that it is right to put heretics and schismatics to death.
The schismatics in their anger rose in rebellion, and a number of them known as Circumcelliones went about stirring the people to revolt.
Did not the crimes of some of these rebellious schismatics merit the most extreme penalty of the law?
In one of his works, now lost, Contra partem Donati, he maintains that it is wrong for the State to force schismatics to come back to the Church.
This prompted the schismatics everywhere to deny that the State had any right to inflict the death penalty or any other penalty upon them.
The officers of the Emperor wished to apply the law in all its rigor, and to sentence the schismatics to death, when they deemed it proper.
At the most, he was ready to admit the justice of the law of Theodosius, which imposed a fine of ten gold pieces upon those schismatics who had committed open acts of violence.
On the other hand, there are many schismatics in good faith who would never attain the truth unless they were forced to enter into themselves and examine their false position.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "schismatics" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
