The cure of church-divisions, or, Directions for weak Christians to keep them from being…

If our infirmities are not all the very same, yet it is certain that we are all infirm. Yea we are all of imperfect and erroneous understandings, though all err not the same error. • And ⟨p. 348⟩we are every man certain in general that we have errors, though no man know in particular which be his own errors! (For it is a contradiction to say that while I err in judgement I know my error) so that other men know our errors when we know them not our selves, as we know theirs which are unknown to them. For as all have their common defects, so most men have their peculiar defects and errors, and others excel those persons in some particulars, who excel them in almost all the rest. Therefore if no error were to be tolerated, no man were to be tolerated: And the wisest in the world must be numbered with the intolerable as well as the rest. And every one that punisheth others, must be conscious of the same intolerable evil in himself, and that nothing but power exempteth him from the same suffering, and therefore none but the King should escape. In many things we offend all: Therefore be not many Masters (too imperious or too censorious towards dissenters and the infirm) lest ye receive the greater condemnation. Jam. 3. 1, 2.

If our infirmities are not all the very same, yet it is certain that we are all infirm. Yea we are all of imperfect and erroneous understandings, though all err not the same errour. • And ⟨p. 348⟩we are every man certain in general that we have errours, though no man know in particular which be his own errours! (For it is a contradiction to say that while I err in judgement I know my errour) so that other men know our errours when we know them not our selves, as we know theirs which are unknown to them. For as all have their common defects, so most men have their peculiar defects and errours, and others excel those persons in some particulars, who excel them in almost all the rest. Therefore if no errour were to be tolerated, no man were to be tolerated: And the wisest in the world must be numbered with the intolerable as well as the rest. And every one that punisheth others, must be conscious of the same intolerable evil in himself, and that nothing but power exempteth him from the same suffering, and therefore none but the King should escape. In many things we offend all: Therefore be not many Masters (too imperious or too censorious towards dissenters and the infirm) lest ye receive the greater condemnation.