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

But where there is an inward enmity to the life and ends of it, we can expect but a formal, unwilling, and unconstant discharge of such unpleasing duty. Truth is for Goodness: The ⟨p. 331⟩Knowledge which maketh you not Good is lost, and hath mist its end. If therefore your Love to God and man, your mortification and unblameableness of life, your heavenly mindedness, be no greater than the peoples (or perhaps much less) do not wonder if you lose your honour with them, and if you grow contemptible in their eyes. Mal. 1. 10. 14. I have no pleasure in you saith the Lord— Cursed be the deceiver which hath in his flock a male and voweth and sacrificeth to the Lord a corrupt thing. Mal. 2. And now O ye Priests, this commandment is for you: If ye will not hear, and if ye will not lay it to heart, to give glory to my name, I will send a curse upon you—The Law of truth was in Levi's mouth, and iniquity was not found in his lips: He walked with me in peace and equity, and did turn away many from iniquity! For the Priests lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth; for he is the messenger of the Lord of Hosts: But ye are departed out of the way; ye have caused many to stumble at the Law, ye have corrupted the Covenant of Levi, saith the Lord of hosts: Therefore also have I made you contemptible and base before all the people, according as ye have not kept my ways, but have been partial in the Law.

But where there is an inward enmity to the life and ends of it, we can expect but a formal, unwilling, and unconstant discharge of such unpleasing duty. Truth is for Goodness: The ⟨p. 331⟩Knowledge which maketh you not Good is lost, and hath mist its end. If therefore your Love to God and man, your mortification and unblameableness of life, your heavenly mindedness, be no greater than the peoples (or perhaps much less) do not wonder if you lose your honour with them, and if you grow contemptible in their eyes. Mal. 1. 10. 14. I have no pleasure in you saith the Lord— Cursed be the deceiver which hath in his flock a male and voweth and sacrificeth to the Lord a corrupt thing.