Casuistical morning-exercises the fourth volume /

And it is not only among Christians, that these Differences in Religious matters are to be found; but the like Dissension is to be met with among Turks and Infidels: The Persian Kingdom and divers Others following Haly, and the Grand Seignior and his Dominions following Osman, the two great Sect-masters in that sorry Religion; insomuch as the Persian Turks do execrate the other in their daily Prayers, saying, Cursed be Ebubeker, Omar and Osman, and God be favourable to Haly, and be well pleased with him. Yea, it is no better among the very Heathens, even the most learned of them, to wit, the Philosophers; of whom One of their Own saith, Tunc inter Philosophos conveniet, quando inter Horologia: Well therefore doth Athanasius answer them, when they objected Diversity of Opinions to the Christians in the Primitive times, that even they did some of them worship one God, and some of them another, and could neither agree about the Object, nor the Manner of their Devotions.

And it is not only among Christians, that these Differences in Religious matters are to be found; but the like Dissention is to be met with among Turks and Infidels: The Persian Kingdom and divers Others following Haly, and the Grand Seignior and his Dominions following Osman, the two great Sect-masters in that sorry Religion; insomuch as the Persian Turks do execrate the other in their daily Prayers, saying, Cursed be Ebubeker, Omar and Osman, and God be favourable to Haly, and be well pleased with him. Yea, it is no better among the very Heathens, even the most learned of them, to wit, the Philosophers; of whom One of their Own saith, Tunc inter Philosophos conveniet, quando inter Horologia: Well therefore doth Athanasius answer them, when they objected Diversity of Opinions to the Christians in the Primitive times, that even they did some of them worship one God, and some of them another, and could neither agree about the Object, nor the Manner of their Devotions.

By all which it is evident, that as there have been different Opinions and Practices among all sorts of Religions in the World, so the Church of God hath been subject to the same Malady.