Baxter - BX1765 B39 1691

,• ...;;.. ·"' .; [ z ] eopacy, andLiturgy, and Ceremoni.es, and Con: formity, are the things that make the greateft D?ife. But 'Jewel, Bilfon, H'Ook§r, &c. differed not about thefe, nor Sir Edwin Snndys, the ·Author of Europ.e Speculum: Nor the Engliih Clergy and Par– liaments in BiihopAkbots days, who were of their mind, when the Differences began to rife and threaten us. § III. It's certain that the fundamental, univerfal Quarrel through the World, is .between the ~ followers of Cain and .Abel, the Serpents and the \~1.Nomans Seed, or the Servants of Satan and of Chrill :. For the carnal mind is enmity to God, . arid neither is nor can be fubjett to his Law. Selfifh" . ne{s is the fum of \vickedpefs ; and Holinefs of'· Moral good. Uniting in one God is poffible and fafe : But to the felfifh there are as many Religions and Ways, as fandy felf,interefi requiretl1. Good· men will do good, and·bad men will do evil,under every Form of Government : Becaufe Great– Good men are fo rare, to kee? Bad men from do– ing hurr, is not the fmallell: ·u[e of Laws. Good· men of differetlt Opinions can live ·in Love and Peace. I never knetv any called Puritanes, who· did not love and honour fuch Conformifis, as Bifhop 'Jewel, A· Bifbop Grindal, A. Bifbop Abbot, A. Bi{bopVjher, Bil11op Davenant, and many fach ~ and {uch as Mr. Bolton, Dr. Sibbs, Dr. Pref!on, Mr. U'hateley, and all fuch other; yea while they' ·wrote againll: fame of them (as Bi!hop Morton 1 .1-lal!, Downamc, <in;.) But what are the pllrticula'f! Quarrels ? 1 ' , - · · § IV. Departing from the only Center and· TeH ofUniverfal Concord, and dtvifimr an Vni.. ve-rf~l Ji:I#ntane So1.:err:igmy,. hath fee the World in.. ·~ . tG' . '

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