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

These things are written in an age of full experience, by one that hath seen the proof in multitudes.

For my part, I will be so ingenuous and thankful, to the disingenuous and unthankful world as to confess, that they have used me with unusual moderation and civility; in that they have still mixed too high commendations with their blind unreasonable Censures. But yet I must say that he is worse than a fool who would not be taught▪ by so much experience as I have had, of the vanity of the judgings of the vertiginous world, to choose a more steadfast seat for his rest, than a windmills-sails. The malicious censurers and railers on one side, and the peevish censurer• ⟨p. 143⟩on the other side, have taught me to stand to the judgment of God, and to pity the poor hypocrite, who hath no better a reward, than, the thoughts and praise of mortal men.

For my part, I will be so ingenuous and thankful, to the dis•ngenuous and unthankful world as to confess, that they have used me with unusual moderation and civility; in that they have still mixed too high commendations with their blind unreasonable Censures. But yet I must say that he is worse than a fool who would not be taugh▪ by so much experience as I have had, of the vanity of the judgings of the vertiginous world, to choose a more stedfast seat for his rest, than a windmills-sails. The malicious censurers and railers on one side, and the pe•vish censurer• ⟨p. 143⟩on the other side, have taught me to stand to the judgment of God, and to pity the poor hypocrite, who hath no better a reward, than, the thoughts and praise of mortal men.