The Life of Faith. 409 another, I am for the Phyfician, and not the Phyfick; and ano- ther, I am for the Phyfick; but not for health. Or as if they contended at their meats, I am for meat, but not for eating it, and I amfor putting* into my mouth, but not for chewing it ; or lamfor chewing it but not for fwallowirg it; or Ì am for fwaúowiag it, but not for digefting it ; or I am for digefting it, but not for eating it, &c. Thus is Chrifi divided among a fort of ignorant proud Pro- feflors : and fome are for his Sacrifice, and foine for his Inter- cefflon, Tome for his leaching, and Corne for his Commands, and fome for his Froth ; fome for his Blood, and tome for his Spirit ; Come forhis Word, and fome for his Minifters, and his Church; and when they have made this flange proficien- cy in wildom, every party claim to be this Church themfelves ; or if they cannot deny others to be parts with them of the MyJtical Church, yet the true ordered Political.diteipiined Church is among them, the matter of thcir claitñ and com- petition, and one faith, It is we, and the other, no but it is we; and the Kitchin, and the Cole-houle, and the Sellar go to Law, to try which ofthem is the Houle. Thus when they have divided Chrífts garments among them, andpierced, if not divided himfelf, they quarrel rather than calf lots for his coat. 7. I perceive thisTrcatife fwclleth too big, or elfe I might next thew you, how partial men arc in the fente of their dan- gers. 8. And in the refifing of Temptations; he that fcapeth fenfuality, feareth not worldlinefs ; or he that fearcth both, yet fallethinto Herefie or Schifin ; and he that fcapetherrours, falleth into flefhly fins. 9. And what partial regard we have ofGods mercies. to. And how partial we are as to our Teachers, and good Books. r r. And alit about all the Ordinances of God, and all the the helps and means of grace. 12. And how partial we are about good works, extolling one, and fenflefs of another ; and about the opportunities of good. .In a word, what lame apprchenfions we have of Reli- gion, when men are fo far from Letting all the parts together in a well ordered frame, that they can fence forbear the F ff dividing
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