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The manifestation of enemies should confirm the mutual league and amity of Brethren. Oh pray for the peace of Jerusalem. Pray we that the deceived may find their error, correct their opinions, and submit their judgements and affections to the rule of truth. Yea, that the wandering sheep; yea that those, who are yet goats may become sheep, and brought into one fold, under one Shepherd, whiles they continue cockle, there is small hope. Yet Paul was once a rare, who after proved good wheat, and is now in the Garner of heaven: Recte dicitur glacialem nive calidam esse non posse: nullo enim pacto quamdiu nix est, calida esse pot•st:¹ It is truly said: that the frozen snow can by no means be made hot: for so long as it is snow, and frozen it admits not to be cal•fied: Yet if that snow be melted, the liquidity thereof may be made hot. God that is able to turn a stony heart into a heart of flesh, work this change upon them; unite all our heats to himself; •o one another and heal our souls of this sickness. 4 To omit many; (for sins as they are innumerable for multitude so divers for quality; and many ••an define sin, but few decline sin.) The last of these inward sicknesses is irreligious Profaneness: a grief of all time, a disease of all Church. Other time have been notable for this, our• notorious. Not that I praise the former, which doubtless were conscious of evils enough. They know theirs, we our own. The deeds of the flesh (if ever) are now ^cmanifest, not only to God, ^db•f•re whom all things lye naked, a• a dissected Anatomy: b•t even to the observing e•e of man. Oppression the• […] self in open field, depopulating, ruining City, Country Church, Drunken re•les in the street; and Gluttony desire, not to be