Casuistical morning-exercises the fourth volume /

Use of Instruction, How to carry our selves towards them who are weak in the Faith, in these days, and doubtless it is a sickly season when there are so many feverish heats among us. I will not say, what once a Romanist said to me, That these are the spuria vitulamina, the Bastard frisks of our Reformation in Henry the Eighths days; But I rather think the violent endeavours after External Uniformity without the Inward, the smothering of the industrious Bees in one Hive, was a great cause of their castling into several Swarms. Threshing the Corn hath driven it out of the Floor, and the grasping so hard the Grains, all into the Hands and Power of some, hath made them creep out through their Fingers. ⟨image 108⟩Rigid Impositions, and violent Prosecutions and Exactions of Conformity to things extra Scriptural and Divine Institution, and without any manifest tendency to Edification, have and will make fractions without end. As D. W. said, Till Men be Infallible, and the World Immutable, moderation becometh every Man who is in his senses and considereth himself.

Ʋse of Instruction, How to carry our selves towards them who are weak in the Faith, in these days, and doubtless it is a sickly season when there are so many feverish heats among us. I will not say, what once a Romanist said to me, That these are the spuria vitulamina, the Bastard frisks of our Reformation in Henry the Eighths days; But I rather think the violent endeavours after External Uniformity without the Inward, the smothering of the industrious Bees in one Hive, was a great cause of their castling into several Swarms. Threshing the Corn hath driven it out of the Floor, and the grasping so hard the Granes, all into the Hands and Power of some, hath made them creep out through their Fingers. ⟨image 108⟩Rigid Impositions, and violent Prosecutions and Exactions of Conformity to things extra Scriptural and Divine Institution, and without any manifest tendency to Edification, have and will make fractions without end. As D. W. said, Till Men be Infallible, and the World Immutable, moderation becometh every Man who is in his senses and considereth himself.