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

DIRECT. LVII.

Yet let not any here cheat you by overdoing, nor mere names and titles of Unity deceive you instead of the thing it self: Nor must you ever dream of any Head and Centre of the Unity of the Catholic Church, but Christ himself.

Yet let not any here cheat you by overdoing, nor meer names and titles of Unity deceive you instead of the thing it self: Nor must you ever dream of any Head and Center of the Unity of the Catholick Church, but Christ himself.

There is no part of Religion which Satan doth not endeavour to destroy, under pretence of promoting it: And his way is to overgo Christ and his Apostles, and to seem more zealous than ever they were, and to mend their work by doing it better or doing more. Christ was not strict enough for the Pharisees, in keeping the […], nor in his company, nor in his diet. Sata•• hath always two ways to destroy both truth and duty; The first is by direct opposing it; But […] that will not do, the next is by overdoing and pretending to defend it. If he cannot destroy zeal, by scorning it, and quenching it; he will try to do it by overheating and distempering it. If he cannot destroy knowledge, by the way of gross ignorance, he will try to spin it out into the finer threads of vain and innumerable questions and speculations, and to crumble it into such invisible atoms, that it shall be reduced to scepticism or nothing. If he cannot destroy faith by open infidelity, he will try to make men believe too much, by making the objects of their own belief▪ and calling that a particular faith, & altering God