( 299 ) the Church of Wove. And as this was lookedon as the greatelk. Impediment unto the Progrefs of the Reforma- tion, fö it was not morally poffible that in a work of that Nature,begun and carried on by Perfons ofall forts, in many Nations, of divers Tongues and Languages, noneofthem being divinely infpired, that it fhould o- therwifefall out. God alto in his Holy Wife Providence fìtflered it fo to be, for Caufes known then to himf, if, but fince fundry ofthem have been made manifeft in. the Event. For whereas there wasan Agreement in allfa z damental Articles of Faith among them, and all necefíàry meanes of Salvation, a farther Agreement confidering our Sloth, Negligence, and pronefs of men to abufe fe- curity and Power, might have produced as evil e, ieclts, as the Differences have done ; For thofe which have . been on the one hand, and thofe which have been on the other, have been and would have been from the corrupt Affe&ions of the Minds of men, and their fecu lar Interefts. 2, Thefe Differences were principally in or about fome Do(lrines ofFaith, whereon Tome' fiery Spirits a- mong them, took occafion mutually, and unjuftly e- nough, to charge each other with Here , efpecialiv was this done among the Lutherans, whöfe. writings are ftuffed with that Charge, and miferable Attempts to make it Good. There were alto other Differences a- mong them, with refpe& unto Church Order, Rites, Ceremonies, and Modes of Worthip. The Churchof England as unto the Government of the Church, and fundry other things, took a way by it felf, 'which at prefent we do not confider. P p a : Con-
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