Catholic unity, or, The only way to bring us all to be of one…Catholick vnity, or, The only way to bring us all to be of one…

9. We are all agreed in profession, that sin is a most hateful thing hated of God, condemned by his Word, and the only cause of the damnation of souls: And yet men love it, and live in it with delight ⟨p. 147⟩Sha•l we agree all to deal with sin as we speak of it? Will Magistrates, and Ministers, and people join together, to banish it out of Town and Country? Particularly we are agreed I hope, that whoredom, and wantonness, and gluttony, and drunkenness, and strife, and envying, and lying, and deceit, and cursing, and swearing, and railing, and backbiting, and speaking against an holy life, are all gro•s, hateful, damning sins, which every Christian must abhor. But why do you not agree in the hating, and forsaking, and beating down of these sins? But Town and Country swarmeth with them as a carcass doth with maggots, or a stinking pond with frogs and toads: So that Magistrates and Ministers, punishments and persuasions, the Laws of the Land, and the Laws of God, can do but little to rid the Country of them; ⟨p. 148⟩but the same men that confess all these to be great and grievous sins, will keep them and delight in them, as if it were in despite of God and man, or as if they bore a deadly grudge to their own immortal souls.

9. We are all agreed in profession, that sin is a most hateful thing hated of God, condemned by his Word, and the only cause of the damnation of souls: And yet men love it, and live in it with delight ⟨p. 147⟩Sha•l we agree all to deal with sin as we speak of it? Will Magistrates, and Ministers, and people joyn together, to banish it out of Town and Countrey? Particularly we are agreed I hope, that whoredom, and wantonness, and gluttony, and drunkenness, and strife, and envying, and lying, and deceit, and cursing, and swearing, and railing, and backbiting, and speaking against an holy life, are all gro•s, hateful, damning sins, which every Christian must abhor. But why do you not agree in the hateing, and forsaking, and beating down of these sins? But Town and Countrey swarmeth with them as a carkase doth with maggots, or a stinking pond with frogs and toads: So that Magistrates and Ministers, punishments and perswasions, the Laws of the Land, and the Laws of God, can do but little to rid the Countrey of them;