( ;·)7 ') i.n their harmony and connexion , and as they center in the ulci: '.m:ne end, which is One. If God had fent you upon fuch a mul– titude of errands as thefl.eili and the wotld dmh; and fet you on .fuch d'ifagreeing contrary works, th~n you had been excufable, if you had neglected fome of them: But he hath f~nryou but upon One errand, even to feel\ and make fure of everlaihng 1tfe ; and therefore if you neglect this One, you are un-excufeable. If the world be divided intoa thoufand opinions, or go a thoufand fe– veral wayes, they may thank themfdves who are ~he Amhors of t:hisconfufion; but God is no caufe of it , or fnend eo it. H~ bath made them but One work._, and fet them but One w.:q to heav-en, and given themOne Mafter, Jefus Chri-fi-;---ro.._u~c-h that way. and written but One Law, even his h.elly Scripture, to be their' fure andconfbnt guide : And if men would flick to thisOn1 Majler,and not make ~efh and blood their mafier, or tbe multitude their m'afl:er, or the Rulers of the world, or the cuftum of their fore-fathers the mafier of their fatib : and if they would flick to this One Wordof God. and not run after the Tr~editions of men, theywoufd not be in f1:1ch a maze, nor of fo many- minds as now they are : But they do in their dotlrines as they do in their pra– _(tice.: God bath marked them out but One way in the holy Scri;.. pmre, which is thegood and thefure way, ,~I1e v.raythat Peter and Paul and the reil of the Apofiles went -c<:d1pven in, and this way wiH not ,ferve mens turns·, but th.ey:will run an hundred waiei inilead ofth~ One: and they mn~maKe ~ew.:f!_ayes which the Apo":'. files of ChnG. were never acquamte4 With. \ . . .~ : IfGod had loaded your memories with m.my things, you might ~ J?Offibly have faid [We cannot remember them aU) bat he bath fet you Jinlllly but one thing to remember, even to lay hold on cverlaH:ing life, and prefs on.to the Crown that is fet: before you; ~ and be bath an ill memory that cannot remember One thinrr, and fucb a thing as this is too. · · 6 It may be you are lgnoram and catJ.not learnmany things; but God haeh fet yon but thu One thing to le11rn as of Ahfolute Ne ... ceffitJ-: And he is.dull indeed thac cannot learn one thing, and fudl a thmg too. If you cannot underfiand the depths of Sciences, nor reach the height of learning that others do attain , yet learn this One tiHng, to know God in the Redeemer; and if you know this, you know all. Tal:! was not only contented with this knowledge, ~~H refol"!~~~~ k!'Q! t}_~f~fng elfe but Chrift t1na himcrHcifird; that: I ·-·-··· ------ ---- . !~$
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