Ç 268 as if they were flill in a frate of hoflility, and lived among their dangerous enemies ? Ifeither Chrifl: or Satan be to be believed a, divided Kingdom in enmity cannot !land. L. Methinksyou argue againf1 your f l f : For therefore it is that we wouldhave all l)ffenters xzootedout, beca;fe of the danger ofday i- lion by tolerated DS-enters, M. Had you read a Book called, The Samaritan, and another called, i'he True and only Terms of Church-Concord, you would, need no further anfwer to that objection. Ifyou would have all of one mind and way, it mull be in that which it is necefJary and... pojJble forall men to agree in, and to make things winecefJary or, impoffible your terms, is the certain way of pernicious divifion. Will you extirpate all that diffent in Controveriìes of Law, of. Thilofophy, AAonoray, Phyfick,, Grammar ; or that differ in Rea- fon,; Conftitution, Statute ? mac. Do you think that all will con: Pent in all the Myfteries of Divinity, while knowledge is fo low and rare ? Yea, do you think that even in circumftances and things doubtful, all good Chriftians will ever be fo much ofone meafure of knowledge as to agree? How happyare we ifwe all agree in great, plain, necell'ary things ? But to underíland alto all little circumflances,and humane Orders and Phrafes; which .. be lawful, and which not, fuppofeth all Plow-men, Tradefmen and Work-men, tobe far more perfect in the knowledgeof Di- vinity, than the molt learned Philofophers are in. Phyfïcks, who agree in littlebut a ff, w principles, and things within the reach of fenfe . Whenyet alas, we can fcarce teach half the vul- gar, the meaning ofthe Creed, or Baptifmal Covenant. Ifthe King would extirpate all Lawyers, Phyficians, or Philo- fophers, who in a multitude of little and controverted points, fannot tell which fade is in the right; he may have fo much the more fuccefs in it, by how much the more men will be bold to diffemble their opinions in matters of fuch a nature. But about the matters ofGod and Salvation, Confciences will be more a- fraid to flretch and diffemble. It's far lefs wife to take this way, than for School- mailers and Tutors to delfroy or raft out all Scholars and Pupils, that have not juft the fame degree ofknowledge. And at what age mutt this perfea knowledge begin, which mutt extend to the molt minutethings that men will command ? At fixteen yearsof age you compel them, volentes, noientcs,to re- ceive. __y
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