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

And indeed the grand difference between the seed of the woman and of the serpent, the holy and the carnal seed, is that which is the root of the greatest and sorest divisions in the world; which will never be reconciled till Christ at the day of judgement shall say to one part, Come ye blessed, and to the other Go ye cursed: For the carnal mind is enmity against God, and is not subject to his law, nor indeed can be (in sense comp•sito.) Rom. 8. 6, 7, 8. It was not for nothing that God permitted that great eruption of it, in the first man that ever was born into the world, against his innocent brothers life, on the bare account of their religious sacrifices! And the Cainites are still too strong for Alel's successors, and too numerous. And why did he kill his brother? But because his own works were evil and his brothers righteous. Gen. 4. 10, 11. 1 Joh. 3. 12. And as Paul saith of the two sons of Abraham, as he that was born of the flesh, persecuted him that was born after the spirit, even so it is now. Gal. 4. 29. For the flesh fighteth against the spirit and the spirit against the ⟨p. 355⟩flesh, and these are contrary the one to the other. Gal. 5. 17. And that which is born of the flesh is flesh, & that which is born of the spirit is spirit. Joh. 3. 6. And they that are of the flesh do savour mind or understand the things of the flesh, and they that are after the spirit do mind the things of the spirit. Rom. 8. 5, 6. Our heavenly teacher told his disciples, that if they were of the world the world would love them; but because they are not of the world, but he had chosen them out of the world, the world would hate them (even as it hated him.) Joh. 15. 18, 19, 24, 25