*.a...****, The Ep le Dedicatory. tine good, that is found in thole that differ from them 5 efpecially if they difpute or write againft them Whence is it but for want of (elf-deny41 , that men who know that whoredom, and drunkennefs, and theft are fins, can yet be ignorant ( in the miclft of light) that dlfcord and Church-divifions are fins e And that they hear himwith heart-rifing , enmity, or fufpition , that cloth declaim againft them e As if Uniting were become the work of Satan, and Dividing were become the work of Chtiit. I mean not Dividing from thole without, but Dividing in his Church , and among his members 5 who are all baptized with one Spirit into one body, t. Car. 12.13. even the Body of Chrift , (not of the Pope) ofwhich even Apoftles are but mem- bers ( and therefore _Peter was not the Head ) r Car. 12. 27)28. which is fo tempered together by God , that there fhould be no fchifm in it, but that the mem bers fhould have the fame care one of another , I Car. I 2. 24, 25. And that for all theplain and terrible paf- cages againft Divifions, that are found in the word of God , it feems to Tome a Venial fin, and to others a commendable Vertue, if not a mark of Chriftian Pie- ty. I may feem to fpeak incredible things, of the de- lufions of felfifh Profeffors of Religion , they were not attefted by the common and lamentale experience of the times. And whence is it but for want of felf-deyal , that Peace-makers fucceed no better in their attempts ? That while all men cry up Peace andUnity, molt men are deflroying them, and few are furthering them , and fewer do it with zeal and diligence 5 fo few, that they are born down in the crowd , and fpeed no better then Lot among the rabble of theSodomites, that cryed out againft
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