Chapter XLVI.—Let us cleave to the righteous: your strife is pernicious. Such examples, therefore, brethren, it is right that we should follow;200 since it is written, “Cleave to the holy, for those that cleave to them shall [themselves] be made holy.”201 And again, in another place, [the Scripture] saith, “With a harmless man thou shalt prove202 thyself harmless, and with an elect man thou shalt be elect, and with a perverse man thou shalt show203 thyself perverse.”204 Let us cleave, therefore, to the innocent and righteous, since these are the elect of God. Why are there strifes, and tumults, and divisions, and schisms, and wars205 among you? Have we not [all] one God and one Christ? Is there not one Spirit of grace poured out upon us? And have we not one calling in Christ?206 Why do we divide and tear to pieces the members of Christ, and raise up strife against our own body, and have reached such a height of madness as to forget that “we are members one of anoth- er?”207 Remember the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, how208 He said, “Woe to that man [by whom209 offences come]! It were better for him that he had never been born, than that he should cast a stumbling-block before one of my elect. Yea, it were better for him that a 18 millstone should be hung about [his neck], and he should be sunk in the depths of the sea, than that he should cast a stumbling-block before one of my little ones.”210 Your schism has subverted [the faith of] many, has discouraged many, has given rise to doubt in many, and has caused grief to us all. And still your sedition continueth. 200 Literally, “To such examples it is right that we should cleave.” 201 Not found in Scripture. 202 Literally, “be.” 203 Or, “thou wilt overthrow.” 204 Ps. xviii. 25, 26. 205 Or, “war.” Comp. Jas. iv. 1. 206 Comp. Eph. iv. 4–6. 207 Rom. xii. 5. 208 This clause is wanting in the text. 209 This clause is wanting in the text. 210 Comp. Matt. xviii. 6, Matt. xxvi. 24; Mark ix. 42; Luke xvii. 2. Chapter XLVI.—Let us cleave to the righteous: your strife is pernicious. 57 Chapter XLVI.—Let us cleave to the righteous: your strife is pernicious