It seems to me to breathe the spirit of a later age, and a more established Church power.
Ib.
Not every one that mistakes in judgment, though in matters of great importance, in points fundamental, but he that openly espouses such fundamental error.

* * Dr.Whitby adds to the definition, the espousing it out of disgust, pride, envy, or some worldly principle, and against his conscience.
Whitby went too far; Waterland not far enough.

Every schismatic is not necessarily a heretic; but every heretic is virtually a schismatic.

As to the meaning of [Greek: autokatakritos], Waterland surely makes too much of a very plain matter.

What was the sentence passed on a heretic?
A public declaration that he was no longer a member of--that is, of one faith with--the Church.