[ 246] ture after the Union ? Do you indeed think tha~ [One] and [Two] are words that h~ve but one iignification ? Have I not proved the Ambiguity, !lnd the Mifunderfranping of each other in too many? But Q how hard it is to be Impartial and to Repent, ·when Contentious Bi!hops in Councils l1ave notori~ufly torn theChurches,draw~ ·fireams of Blood, Cuded and Reproached one another, anc;i Curfed that Curling it fdfand their Party the next change, and have overthrowp the Empire, · and fet up the Pope by firiving ab6ut Jurifdietion ~nd hard words, who !ball be greatell: and wifefr, rnufi not this whi~h cannot be ·hid be lamented ? . If Cyril were but halfas bad as ]oh. Amioch. Theo– dore't, Ifidore, Pelujiota, Socrates and Soz..omen, &c. , make him, bow partial were his Admirers ? But I fee it is as hard for Bilhops to repent as other Men,when their Self-efieem and Dignity feemeth to themfelves to entitle them to the reputationof Sanctity and Innocency : And if they divide the Cl1rifiian World as wofully as the Wefi and Eafi, , ~nd the Abaffines, Copcies, Jacobites, Nefiorians, .Armenians, Prot~fiants, &c. are divided at this 9ay, or iliould they Silence Thoufands of Faithful Minifiers ofChriil: for not Sinning,or for Nothing 1 arid' bring thereby Confufion and Scnifms, among ferious Chrifiians to the hardening ofthe Prophane , aridHereticks, it will feern to fome amore hei– nous Sin to name their Sin,a,nd call them to Repen– tar.ce, than in them t9 commit it. And yet one may name the Sins of a Thief or Drunkard , and ,all him to Repentance without blame. But have l fai9 half fo ill by them, as they faid by •one ano– ther ? They anathematized each other, but fo do ~ot I by theQ1 ~ What f~y I worfe ~f t.h.e ~rfi b~~ . ,· .. ' . ' . ' ~ ') ~ I" • !
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