Chapter titles include:

• Of the Nature of Schism in Scripture
• Causeless Separation from a true Church is Schism
• Of the Church Catholic Mystical, and its Union
• Of the Church Catholic visible, and its Union
• Independentism in Donatism
• Of the particular Church, and its Union
• Independentism, a great Schism

Also contains "an appendix to the former discourse of schism; showing the inconstancy of the Dr. and the inconsistency of his former and present opinions."

Dr. Calamy called Cawdrey, "a man of great consideration, eminently learned, and a noted member of the (Westminster--RB) assembly of divines. He preached sometimes to the members of parliament... was ejected from his living at Great Billing, and separated from his friends and his flock, by the act of uniformity, after having laboured, for the edification of his people in that place, for 36 or 37 years" (Thomas Smith, Select Memoirs... of Pious and Learned English and Scottish Divines, pp. 488-489).