§. 6. If God will take all into Heaven that practically believe the Creed, and obey what is plainly written in the Scripture, why may not such live in Love and Peace on Earth, and the Key-bearers of the Church (which is the Seminary of Heaven) receive such, as Christ receiveth us to the Glory of God the Father, Rom. 15. 16. What if Men confess that they know no more (when millions called Christians know not so much) will they destroy them for not knowing more than they can know? Or is it any Virtue or Duty ⟨p. 14⟩to lye, and say that they know or believe what they are utterly ignorant of? What if those that with Jerome misliked the word Hypostasis, and those that preferred it before Persona, had forborne censuring one another? What if the questions, Whether Mary should be called the Mother of God, or rather of Him who is God? Or whether Christ's Will and Operations should be said to be One or Two? had been managed with mutual forbearance, without Zeno's Henoticon, or Anastasius's forcible Amnesty? What if such forbearance had spared all the rage and bloodshed at Antioch, Alexandria and other parts? What if Chrysostom and others had bin permitted to silence their Thoughts of Origen? What if men had not bin put to declare whether the tria capitula of Theodoret, I•as and Theodore Mopsuest, were sound or unsound, and said, What is it to us? Might not the Church have lived with such in Peace? What if when the World was in a flame about Images, they had left them only to those that desired them? Might not they yet have lived in Love, that agreed in all the Essentials of Christianity? What if yet one man say that Christ's Body is locally present in the Eucharist; and another say that, Because he knoweth not how far his spiritual Glorified Body is invisible, therefore he no more knoweth whether it be there than whether an Angel be there, but believeth that the Sacrament is truly his crucified Body representative; why might not both these live in peace? What if one think that Venial Sin must be punished with Purgatory Fire, or as an English Dr. that some men must pass a new Life of Trial, in their Aerial Vehicle, before they are capable of an ⟨p. 15⟩Ethereal Vehicle, why may not such bear with one that saith he knoweth no such thing?
§. 6. If God will take all into Heaven that practically believe the Creed, and obey what is plainly written in the Scripture, why may not such live in Love and Peace on Earth, and the Key-bearers of the Church (which is the Seminary of Heaven) receive such, as Christ receiveth us to the Glory of God the Father, Rom. 15. 16. What if Men confess that they know no more (when millions called Christians know not so much) will they destroy them for not knowing more than they can know? Or is it any Virtue or Duty ⟨p. 14⟩to lye, and say that they know or believe what they are utterly ignorant of? What if those that with Ierome misliked the word Hypostasis, and those that preferred it before Persona, had forborn censuring one another? What if the questions, Whether Mary should be called the Mother of God, or rather of Him who is God? Or whether Christ's Will and Operations should be said to be One or Two? had been managed with mutual forbearance, without Zeno's Henoticon, or Anastasius's forcible Amursty? What if such forbearance had spared all the rage and bloodshed at Antioch, Alexandria and other parts? What if Chrysostom and others had bin permitted to silence their Thoughts of Origine? What if men had not bin put to declare whether the tria capitula of Theodoret, I•as and Theodore Mopsuest, were sound or unsound, and said, What is it to us? Might not the Church have lived with such in Peace? What if when the World was in a flame about Images, they had left them only to those that desired them? Might not they yet have lived in Love, that agreed in all the Essentials of Christianity? What if yet one man say that Christ's Body is locally present in the Eucharist; and another say that, Because he knoweth not how far his spiritual Glorified Body is invisible, therefore he no more knoweth whether it be there than whether an Angel be there, but believeth that the Sacrament is truly his crucified Body representative; why might not both these live in peace? What if one think that Venial Sin must be punished with Purgatory Fire, or as an English Dr. that some men must pass a new Life of Trial, in their Aireal Vehicle, before they are capable of an ⟨p. 15⟩Aethere•l Vehicle, why may not such bear with one that saith he knoweth no such thing?
