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I. No doubt but the extreme which hath far most injured the Church of Christ, hath been the excess of Disputing; and given just occasion to Sr. H.W.'s motto, [The Itch of Disputing makes the Scab of the Church,] which is easily discernible, both in the Cause and the Effects.

I. No doubt but the extream which hath far most injured the Church of Christ, hath been the excess of Disputing; and given just occasion to Sr. H.W.'s motto, [The Itch of Disputing makes the Scab of the Church,] which is easily discernable, both in the Cause and the Effects.

§. 2. 1. In the cause it is too notorious, that ordinarily it proceedeth from the depravation of the three faculties of the soul, Potestative, Intellective, Volitive, in the three great Principles ⟨p. 186⟩of iniquity, Pride, Ignorance and wrath.

§. 3. 1. Did not Pride cause men much to overvalue their own parts and worth, Controversy would have shrunk into a narrower compass before this day: Men would have come to one another as friends to be informed of what they know not, by enquiry and gentle conferences, if not as children to School, to learn: And if grace by hard studies had given one man more insight into any matters than another, humility would readily have acknowledged Gods gifts, and desired to have the benefit of a friendly communication; and wherever God had set up a light, the Children of his family would have been ready to work by it: It would not have been so hard as now it is for an Ignorant man to know his Ignorance, nor to discern when another knoweth more than he.