Truly Sirs, the main difference ⟨p. 95⟩in this world is between the Godly and the Ungodly; and all other differences that are not parts of this, are nothing to this, being of lesser danger, and easier toleration or cure. The whole world is divided into two Armies: Christ is the Captain General of one, and the Saints only his true Soldiers, and the seeming Saints his seeming Soldiers: The Devil is the General of the other, and all the unregenerate or ungodly are his Soldiers. An enmity is put since the beginning between the seed of the woman and of the Serpent, Gen. 3.15. and there is no middle state, nor one man on earth that is not in one of these Armies. I come not to reconcile the Commanders, Christ and Satan; for they are unreconcilable; but to reconcile you to Christ, and draw you from a deceiver. I tell you, •irs, this great difference between the holy ⟨p. 96⟩and the unholy, is the first that must be healed. We can go no further with you, if you will not begin here at the heart of the difference. When this is do•e, you shall see before I have done with you, that I will quickly tell you how we may do well, for all our other differences. You know if one of us believe that there is a God, and another that there is none, i• were foolery for us to dispute how God must be worshipped, before we are agreed that there is a God. So here; when it is the nature of ungodliness to make men false to the very truths that they do profess, and heartily to be of no Religion at all, it is in vain to dispute about circumstances and mode▪ with such kind of men. Who would dispute whether Infants should be baptized, with a man tha• knows not wh•• Baptism is? [Ev•n an accepting of God for ou• ⟨p. 97⟩God, and Christ for our Lord and Saviour, and the Holy Ghost for our Sanctifier; and an absolute delivering up our selves to the blessed Trinity in these relations, by a solemn Covenant professed •nd sealed by water, renouncing the flesh, the world and the Devil.] O were but this much practically known, we should be all United in this one Baptism. Still I say, Unholiness is th• great point of difference, and the dungeon of Confusion, and puddle where all the heresies of the world are blend•d and made into a body that is something worse then heresy. When you cry up Unity, and cry down Holiness, you are distracted and know not what you say.
Truly Sirs, the main difference ⟨p. 95⟩in this world is between the Godly and the Vngodly; and all other differences that are not parts of this, are nothing to this, being of lesser danger, and easier toleration or cure. The whole world is divided into two Armies: Christ is the Captain General of one, and the Saints only his true Souldiers, and the seeming Saints his seeming Souldiers: The Devil is the General of the other, and all the unregenerate or ungodly are his Souldiers. An enmity is put since the beginning between the seed of the woman and of the Serpent, Gen. 3.15. and there is no middle state, nor one man on earth that is not in one of these Armies. I come not to reconcile the Commanders, Christ and Satan; for they are unreconcileable; but to reconcile you to Christ, and draw you from a deceiver. I tell you, •irs, this great difference between the holy ⟨p. 96⟩and the unholy, is the first that must be healed. We can go no further with you, if you will not begin here at the heart of the difference. When this is do•e, you shall see before I have done with you, that I will quickly tell you how we may do well, for all our other differences. You know if one of us believe that there is a God, and another that there is none, i• were foolery for us to dispute how God must be worshipped, before we are agreed that there is a God. So here; when it is the nature of ungodliness to make men false to the very truths that they do profess, and heartily to be of no Religion at all, it is in vain to dispute about circumstances and mode▪ with such kind of men. Who would dispute whether Infants should be baptized, with a man tha• knows not wh•• Baptism is? [Ev•n an accepting of God for ou• ⟨p. 97⟩God, and Christ for our Lord and Saviour, and the Holy Ghost for our S•nctifier; and an absolute delivering up our selves to the blessed Trinity in these relations, by a solemn Covenant professed •nd sealed by water, renouncing the flesh, the world and the Devil.] O were but this much practically known, we should be all United in this one Baptism. Still I say, Unholiness is th great point of difference, and the dungon of Confusion, and puddle where all the heresies of the world are blendd and made into a body that is something worse then heresie. When you cry up Unity, and cry down Holiness, you are distracted and know not what you say.
