Caufe.r of the iverfity of minds. 353 that publiek inter* may be allowed much power upon their minds, thoughprivateandperfonal mutt be denied: Is it not a wonder to fee,not only that almo(I allCbrifiaRS are incorpórated into onefed Or partyor other,bu +t how eafly the inconfiderable reafons of their party can prevail with them, and how hardly the better reafons of their adverfaries, Teem to them ofany weight or worth ? Not on-- ly the parties ofPapifts and Proteaants, Luthe- rans and Reformed, &c. fliew this f but in the fame Church the Regulars and Seculars, the Bi-: ;hops and the Jefuits, the Dominicans andJe-' fuits, the Thomifts, Scotifts, c. declare it.' And the difference made by nat,ral capacities is yet more thanall this When óne man is born to a duller underftanding, and another bath a quick and dear apprehen1on ; All that thefe men read and hear and meditate on, is like to makedifferent impretlions on their minds. And this is the greateft thing of any one, which ma- keth many controverfes endlefs, and maketh both Divines and people run away from one anó- ther as dangeroufly erroneous : If a fewmen have clearer underftandings than the duller and un tudied fort, they are like to be the minor part; For the dull and flothful (and yet felfconceited) will ever be the greaterpart, many to one, till the golden age return. And when all the world feeleth the confequ.ents of this difference, can we doubt of it, or fo far dote , as to think it poffble to cure, it ? Yea the various degrees òf the Grace of Gods do certainly alfo make great varietyof appre- henfions. When God giveth toTome thole true C o ilium
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