( 75) ingPopifh, and itwas hard to know themiddleRegion; and harder to know how long it would be calm r till ftrangers cryed, Deus bone, quomodo hic vivant Gentes.. But as none are more cruel in Wars than Cowards, (nor in Robberies than Women,) nor any more gentle and pitiful than valiant experiencedSouldiers ; fo few are fo infolent and bloody obtruders of their Diaates andWills upon the World, as thole that being leaft able to prove them good, have nothing but Inquifitions and Priions, Silencings and Banifhings, Fire and Faggot, effectually to make them good. But if St. lames be in the right, who faith, that Pure Religion and undefiled is this, to vtfit the Fatherlef s and Widows in their adverfity, and to keep our (elves unfpot zedof the world, then certainly the 7eruits Morals , and theMyftery of7efuitifm, and Clarkfon's Roman Praehicat Divinity, and Fowlis's Treafons of thePapifts, contain more of the concerns of Religion, than preaching in a çonfecrated or unconfecrated place, and than eating Fleth, Fifh, or neither, in Lent or onFridays, cloth. O the ítrange difference between your Unity and Concord, and the Proteftants ! How fait is yours ? How loofe is ours And it is to be confidered we pretend not to fo much perfetion in this world, as ever to expert that all Men should be juft ofthe fame Size andComplexion, or fpeak the fame Language, or have all the fame Opinions, Thoughts, or Words : Ifwe can keep the Unity of the Spirit in the Bond of Peace, in the fevers Points named by the Apof}le, Eph. 4. 3, 4, 5, 6. fo far as we haveat- tained do walk by the fame Rule (of Love and Peace) and mind the fame things, till God reveal more to fuch as differ, (Phil.,.) we (hall be glad of fuch a íneafure z of
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