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3. If God have made it one half the work of the Pastors of the Churches, to labour all their days to heal the Ignorance of good people, then, such Ignorant ones there are: But the antecedent is plain in Scripture; and believed by most Ministers, as their daily Sermons tell you.

3. If God have made it one half the work of the Pastors of the Churches, to labour all their daies to heal the Ignorance of good people, then, such Ignorant ones there are: But the antecedent is plain in Scripture; and believed by most Ministers, as their daily Sermons tell you.

4. Do not the multitudes of Sects and Errors, and Contentions that have torn the Church from the Apostles days till now prove it? Were all those in the Catalogues of Epiphanius, Augustine, Philastrius, &c. Certainly graceless? Or were none of them Ignorant and Injudicious?

4. Do not the multitudes of Sects and Errors, and Contentions that have torn the Church from the Apostles daies till now prove it? Were all those in the Catalogues of Epiphanius, Augustine, Philastrius, &c. Certainly graceless? Or were none of them Ignorant and Injudicious?

And though Church-tyranny be a grand ⟨p. 95⟩Divider, that this was not the only Cause, two instances prove to the great disgrace of this assertion of his. First, the instance of the said sects of Christians, for the first 300 or 400 years, when there were no such Impositions. Secondly, our late twenty years (or near) contentions and divisions, and numerous parties, when there were little or no impositions. Was it impositions or tyranny that bred sects in the Armies, and in England and Ireland in the days of liberty?