3 S4 Cotrxfès or diverfity o f itsds. illuminations, thofe (hirliing delires after truth, thofe heart- experiences,thofe delightfal refhes, thofe powerful eflèas and viaories, which he gi- vethnot to others, they are made todiffer & mull` needs have different apptehenficn; of fuch things. In which fenfe Chrif} faith, that he came not to fend peace btu diviJion, that is, to be fuch an ob- ¡ea, and preach fo holy a dotti.ne, and give Inch race, as would (ccafon divifions by making his fanóified ones differ from the world, and occa- honing the erritation of the worlds malig- nity. And indeed the grand difference between the feed of the woman and of the ferrent, the holy and the carnal feed , is that which is the root of the greateff and foreíf divifions in the world ; which will never be reconciled till Chria at the dayofjudgement Ihall fay to one part, Come ye 1 Jej7 d, and to theother Go ye curled : For the care n4 mind is enmity again)? God , and is not f sbje1 to Lid lair, nor indeed can be (infen, u compofito.) Rom. 8, 6, 7, 8. It was not for nothing that God per- mitted that great eruption of it, in the firfl man that ever was born into the woold, againfl his in- nocent brothers life , on the bare account of their reli iou facrifices I And the Cainites are fill too firong for Abel's fucceffors,, and too nu- merous, And why did he kill hid brother ? But ficcanfe hss on corks z ere evil and his brothers righ- teotd. Gcn.4. t o, I a. z Joh. 3 Y 2, And as Part faith of the two f ms of 4braham,as he that vad,born of thefief, , perfecuted him that wid born after the f [r t, evenfo it if nw. Gal. 4. 29. For the fdefli fiihttth gainfi the fpirft aril the fpir'it the fl ejhy.
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