Lectures upon the three first chapters of the RevelationLectures vpon the three first chapters of the Reuelation

Adams two sons could not ⟨image 8⟩agree in one field,^a Abraham's in one house,^b Isaaks in one womb,^c Davids in one palace, nor those^d two brethren in the division of an inheritance. And though concord amongst brethren (especially such as must divide the inheritance) be very rare, yet do you, even in this, most comfortably agree. You are not as Simeon and Levi, Romulus and Remus, Eteocles and Polynices, Atreus and Thyestes, Aeta and Perseus: but as Castor and Pollux, David & Jonathan, Joseph and Benjamin; and (as a true friend is described to be)^e one soul in two bodies. It seemeth that as Agrippa the brother of Augustus was beholding to Sallust for that one sentence: Small things increase by concord, but perish through discord, so you have all learned the same lesson: as being persuaded, that as the members of a body being once dismembered, they cannot possibly be joined again: so if natural brethren be once unnaturally disjoined, no glue will conjoin them fast again. It were infinite to show examples of brotherly love and hatred,^f and others have eased me of this pains. Now that good God, who hath brought you from one root, placed you in one country, advanced you to like credit, and given you one heart, give you also one inheritance in the kingdom of heaven. Thus right worshipful I am bold to speak unto you, and the world knoweth I speak the truth, and the Lord knoweth I desire not to flatter. Go on therefore I beseech you, continue in love, be settled in the truth, and labour to honour him who thus honoureth you. Be not carried away with the^g show of this world, but think religion the best nobility, and that as ^h