The Confcience ofCharitie• ~------~------------~~~~ - But didour Saviour pray that we might .Cap.-14all be Perfell in one, as h~e _and the Fath~r·- · -– areOne; and !hall.we imagm~our Perfeffi- Joh.•?·21, on lies indivifion? Shall we not fuff(!r this u,23. Ii.raier to take ·place a~1'y where but in~ea. · ven ? Is it the Perftllion and glorieof the ChurchTriumph.:~n,t to be .One, and Harm~- niouf, and is it ourp~rftCiim tobe ev.er mili-_ tant and jarring ? When aUprophecie and fpeak the fame·thing,the ignor11nt man~omes in, is convinced; and crieth out, Gud i1 in . } 'lu of a truth, 1 Cor. 14.25. But when · all fpeak with differing and diveri tmgue~, the ignorant and unfettled man goes ·outi and cries, The] art marJ, as it~ ver.23. Nor are we to wonder,that Godhathfuch a Controverfie withhisPeople in this land, and hath poured put fuch a Viall of con• · tempt upon them, breaking us with breach upon breach,Wemayread our fin in the judg(– ment, we can impute it to nothing more then to our unnece.ffarie and unkJ.nde Cono. troverfies among our {elves, whereby w~ . have caft contemp~ upon his truth , and' made breach t~pon breach in his Church~ _\Vhen the father fees ·fuch a wrangling ; and froward difpofition in his ehildreTJ, tha~ theyare fiill Qgarrelling,hetak~ then\ , ~._n mhand, an~gives them encugb ofjighting, t~ll they fee thetr folly. It hathbeen many tun;s obfervfd by godly Ecclefi~fticall lVnters, that when the ChrHtians have abu· 6;dPeace, Libenie, and Fulnc:fs of Gofpel Bleffin~s, ·
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