Ggeat difference ofall mens minds. 34,7 DIRECT. X. Remember the common calamity of the Church andof all mankind: whatpane dirparity there e:s in mens underflandings and ho n' the Church on earth is a Hofpitat of difeafed fouls, andno one man perfealy healed in this life. Ho can fay have made my heart clean? Troy. 2o. 9. He that is kept from pre. fronptHouv finsond heartily prayeth and firiveth gainft his known infirmities and is defirous to know his unknown fins that he may avoid them, bath attained fo far as to be juilified by Chrift, and loved of thofe who love as Cbrift cloth. Pfal.' 19. yob. 3. 91 2o. Seneca could fay that to carp at th it fault which was every mans fault, is not to reprove an offender, but to reproach hu- mane nature and all mankind Chriftians indeed muff lament even thevices which are common to depraved nature, but it is with a common lamen- tation, which falleth on one man no more than on another. Even as we lament mortality, which is the common punifhment of mankind. But he that would have puniflimerit infii&ed fcr a fault- which is common to all, would have all men puni-,. /lied or is partial. if our infirmities are rot all the very fame, yet it is certain that we are all infirm. Yea we are all of imperfect and erroneous under(land- ings, though all err not the fame errour. And we
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