129.) agreement in their Language ? I would fay that thofe men that difagree but about thepronunciation of a few words are very much agreed, in comparifonof a Barba Tian, that agreeth not with them in a Sentence or a Word. Even the old Schoolmen were in Language more agreedwith Erafmus, Faber, Hutten, and otherCri- tical Grammarians that derided them, than any illiterate manwas with any of them. All Gruterushis Volumes of Grammatical Controverfies , thew not fo much di. fiance in Language, as the peaceable filence of an un- learned man loth. And no one ftrives much about that which he Both not much care for : Countrymen can contemptuoufly laugh at Logical Difputes or Criticifms. Horfes or Oxen will not ftrive with us for our Gold or Jewels, Clothes or Food, as we do with one another ; and yet they are not fo like us in the eftimation of fuch things, aswe are to one another. When I hear religious perlons contentioufly cenfuring eachother, about fòtne little points of Ceremony, Or- der, Difcipline, or Form, which are but the fimbria, or the Welts and Laces of Religion, I am angry at their weaknefs and defect of love ; but I mutt needs think that there is very great concord in the Faith and Religion (Objec}ive) of thefe men, who differ about no greater matters than fuch as thefe. If men that were building a Palacewould fall together by the Ears, only about the driving of a Pin, I fhould marvel at their concord that differed in no more ; though I° could with them, like wrangling Children, whipt for their folly and froward- nefs till they were quiet. The great things that Pro- tefiants have paltrily wrangled about, are, I. The Do- drtnal Controverfes calledArminian : 2. And the mat- ters
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