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

I cannot forbear telling you the aggravation of this kind of sin. It seemeth to me a kind of blasphemy against God. As if you would make the world believe that God is so much for your mod• and words, that he overlooketh all the desires of the Spirit; and all his promises, and all mens interest in Christ, and forgetteth all his love to his people: so that Christ shall not intercede for them, or shall not prevail, unless they pray to God in the words and mode which you have fancied to be best, whether with a Book or without, in these words or in those. Me thinks you are renewing the old controversy, whether in this Mount or at Jerusalem men ought to worship? and knew not that the time is come that God will neither accept men for worshipping at this Mount or at Jerusalem, here or there, with a book or without book; but the true worshippers whom he chooseth, do worship him as a Spirit, in Spirit and in truth, as well with Forms as without them.

I cannot forbear telling you the aggravation of this kind of sin. It seemeth to me akind of blasphemy against God. As if you would make the world believe that God is so much for your mod• and words, that he overlooketh all the desires of the Spirit; and all his promises, and all mens interest in Christ, and forgetteth all his love to his people: so that Christ shal not intercede for them, or shal not prevail, unless they pray to God in the words and mode which you have fancied to be best, whether with a Book or without, in these words or in those. Me thinks you are renewing the old controversie, whether in this Mount or at Ierusalem men ought to worship? and knew not that the time is come that God will neither accept men for worshipping at this Mount or at Ierusalem, here or there, with a book or without book; but the true worshippers whom he chooseth, do worship him as a Spirit, in Spirit and in truth, as well with Forms as without them.

And yet some are more wicked than barely to condemn their brethren's prayers, because they be not clothed just as their own. They will also break jests and scorns at them, and take this for the ingenuity of their piety. Like men of several Countries who thnk the fashions of all Countries save their own, to be ridiculous, and laugh