A Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practically resolvedA Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practicaly resolved

VII. Never set a doubtful Opinion against a certain Truth or Duty: reduce not things certain to things uncertain; but contrarily uncertain things to certain: for instance, It is certain that you ought to live in Love and Peace with all that are true Christians, and to do good to all, and wrong to none: Let not any doubtful difference make you violate this Rule, and hate, and slander, and backbite, and hurt them for a doubtful, indifferent or unnecessary thing: Set not your Mint or Cummin, Tithes or Ceremonies, against Love and Justice, and the great and certain things of the Law: It's an ill Sect or Opinion that is against the Nature and common Duty of Christianity and Humanity.

VII. Never set a doubtful Opinion against a certain Truth or Duty: reduce not things certain to things uncertain; but contrarily uncertain things to certain: for instance, It is certain that you ought to live in Love and Peace with all that are true Christians, and to do good to all, and wrong to none: Let not any doubtful difference make you violate this Rule, and hate, and slander, and backbite, and hurt them for a doubtful, indifferent or unnecessary thing: Set not your Mint or Cummin, Tythes or Ceremonies, against Love and Justice, and the great and certain things of the Law: It's an ill Sect or Opinion that is against the Nature and common Duty of Christianity and Humanity.

VIII. Faithfully serve Christ as far as you have attained, and be true to all the Truth that you know; sin not by omission or practice against the Knowledge which you have, lest God in justice give up your Understanding to believe a Lie.

IX. Remember that all men on earth are ignorant, and know but as in a Glass, and in part, and therefore the best have many Errors: No man knoweth the smallest Grass or Worm with an adequate perfect knowledge. And if God bear with multitudes of Errors in us all, we must bear with such as are tolerable in each other: It's well if men be humble, and teachable, and willing to know. As we have seen few more imperfect than the Sects that have asserted sinless perfection, so we see few so fallible and erroneous, as the Roman Sect, which pleadeth their Infallibility; when they tell you that you must believe their Popes and Councils, that you may come to an end of Controversy: Ask them whether we may here hope for any end of Ignorance, Error and Sin; if not, what hope of ending all Controversies before we come to Heaven, where Ignorance is ended? The Controversies against the Essentials of Christianity, were ended with us all; when we became true and adult Christians, and the rest will be lessened as we grow in knowledge. Divinity is not less mysterious than Law and Physic, &c. where Controversies abound.