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

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.

Do I speak according to the most common judgment of Divines▪ The Sectary saith, my light is divine: I speak but by rote, and not by true illumination. Do I pretend to add any clearness to the methods or points received, or to correct any error which hath got the major Vote of the injudicious? Then I am self conceited, and a novelist; and if not a heretic, its well I And the honour of all the Divines which are of a contrary mind, must be engaged to promote the Censure. And the fear that sober Christians have of novelty and error, must be called up to make them abhor any truth which the grave and ignorant censurer doth not understand: And they that confess that they never seriously read what I have written, on such or such a subject, yet have wisdom and honesty little enough to say behind my back, O take heed of such a mans Books, for they are tantum non heretical Though in presence they are as gentle as Lambs, or as quickly silenced (or worse) as the Owls at the approach of da light: If such a judicious Writer, as Camer, or Davnant, or Usher, or Gracious, or Bengi, or Amyrald, or Placau, or apellus, or Testrdus, or Blondel, or Dllus, or […] Blan (in his late excellent impartial judicious Theses) or Junius, or Vssius, or Strangius, &c. do tell any of the unstudied or injudicious sort of Divines, any more than they have received from that party of Teachers, who are in greatest reputation with them; you shall