104 Sermon 5, which the conteff was,we shall not offer now to decide it is fure'in the matter one of them was wrong,and it is like both in the manner, and yet both thought themfelves to be right.' 3: There may be miftakes in very concerning and important truths : Is not that a concerning truth, about which yob's friends difputed with him, viz. That God would not temporally plague a godly man ? And was not that a concerning truth anent the nature of Chrif's king- dom; wherein the'difciples were miflaken and wrong And, if we fpeale of matters of fait, was not that of the fathers and other faints, in the matter of bigamy and Polygamy, a concerning thing's Yet all of them thought themfelves to be right, neither did they (for any thing we know)_ go againft an explicate challenge of their Con - fcienge in that Matter. 4. It is not one or two, but many, that may be under fuch miftakes; many of the fathers were miflaken, yob's friends were fo, all the apoftler were fo ; many thoufand3, yea, ten thoufands of the yews that believed (as it were almoff all the 'believers of that country) were fo, being all zealous of the ceremonial law, when yet it was abrogate. 5. They may be ex- ceeding fervent and forward,and in that wherein they err Very bent on it. How vehemently and eagerly did yob's friends purfue the difpute, to beat him from a found principle which they held againif him ? How ferious were the apofles in thefe things wherein they erred r How zealous were thee 'found believing 7ew.t for thefe cere- monies, even after the 'matter was other wife determined by the apoftles'? And how hot was the contention be- twixt B4rnabas and Paul ? even fo hot, that they parted company. 6. That they continue in facia miífakes, not %vith'ftanding many evidences that might ferve to bring them off, and againfl many relevant reafons given them to the contrary. ¿low many unanfwerable arguments were were adduced by fob to perfwade his friends of their rnifake ? and yet, had not the Lord himfelf immediately interpofed, 'tis like they might havediéd without taking with it. flow' often' did Chrift refute that opinion touching the nature of his kingdom, by preaching of fuf- fering, and of the neceffity of his death, by telling his difciples exprefly that his -kingdom was not of this world
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