In this respect the present Dissenters have the advantage over their earlier predecessors; but on the other hand they utterly evacuate the Scriptural commands against schism; take away all sense and significance from the article respecting the Catholic Church; and in consequence degrade the discipline itself into mere club-regulations or the by-laws of different lodges; — that very discipline, the capability of exercising which in its own specific nature without superinduction of a destructive and transmutual opposite, is the fairest and firmest support of their cause.

I must assume all the typos are some sort of ironic bit. Or you're just a lazy, pretentious fuckboi. I suspect the latter.

It flows and flows, and yet will flow, Volume decreaseless to the final hour. — A. Seward.

Whether things could have been different is an open question, and one that would take us far afield from the focus of this book.