c 446 j ended 1n this Life : As if Ignorance wouid be without Errour. And is he aMan that knowech not how little it· is chat the wifel1 know -? and how much Ignorance all Mankind is guilty of? , Have thefe Pret~nders yet ended .ControverGes "I Are there not many Hor(e- Loads of .Volu.mes of Controverlies·among thea1felves? Have ·they yet written any Infallible or Determining Commenta– ry on the Bible? Did not St. Paul write, Rom. 14~ & I 5, &c. for bearing with tolerable Differences. Is it not tht .Great Wifdom and Mercy,of God cq· lay mens Salvation upon a few plain tbings)thougll amultitude beGdes remain as Controverlies~ Chrifr . ' wjll decide them all at the Great approaching Judgment: And is there any on Earth tliat call decide them all ? that hath either fo great Know- . ledge, or fo Univerfal a decilive Powet? Why is the Chrifiian WorId thefe Thoufand or Twelve' hundred Years divided into Greeks, Armenians,~ Nefiorians, Jacebites, Papifrs, Protefiants, (;}"c. if there be a Humane Judicature eo End all Contra:. verGes? And are fuch .Popes as reigned from a Thoufand to Fifteen hundred, and fud1 Bifhops as made up their Councils, ( Mef! of lgnor~mce and Vice) fit to end all Controverhes on Earth. . IX. In order to tbefe E_nds they make a great· cry of the SeCts and DiviGons which are among Proteflams, .to dr.a1." men tha·t love 'Unity to come for it to ,the Chttrch of Rome. ' . And firfi they impudently falfifie the I-lifiory of · the Matter of FaCt, and perfwade Men that tte' Differences among. Proreftants are ten times grea~ ter than they are. They have thus pleaded ic eo' my face ·when I had a Pafioral Charge at Kidder– minfte~ : whete-we were all of one Rel'igionand. Jivedl
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