A saint or a brute the certain necessity and excellency of holiness, &c. ...…

Object. But do we not see that the main Divisions of the world are about Religion? Answ. 1. Its true; but not by the truly Religious. The great quarrel of the world is against Religion in the life and practice of it. 2. It is unholy men that cannot abide to be accounted unholy, that are the chief dividers. 3. Among the truly Godly, there is no division in the main, but only differences about the smaller Branches of Religion, which are Numerous, and less discernible, and less necessary then the common Truths. They are all Agreed of Truth enough to bring them to Heaven; and therefore enough to unite them in dear Affection upon earth. Nay there is not one of them that hath not a special love to all that he discerneth to be the servants of the Lord. If any be without this, he is ungodly. And we are not to answer for the miscarriages of every Infidel or ungodly man, that will put on the Name of Christianity and Godliness. If there should be fallings out among the godly, they cannot rest till they are healed and set in joint again. But you must not then be so unjust as to conclude, that we can have no Unity, till we are in all things of a mind. May not men of various complexions be of one Society? Are not the multitudes of Veins and Arteries in your Bodies, united in the trunks and roots? It not the Tree one, that hath many branches?

Object. But do we not see that the main Divisions of the world are about Religion? Answ. 1. Its true; but not by the truly Religious. The great quarrel of the world is against Religion in the life and practice of it. 2. It is unholy men that cannot abide to be accounted unholy, that are the chief dividers. 3. Among the truly Godly, there is no division in the main, but only diffetences about the smaller Branches of Religion, which are Numerous, and less discernable, and less necessary then the common Truths. They are all Agreed of Truth enough to bring them to Heaven; and therefore enough to unite them in dear Affection upon earth. Nay there is not one of them that hath not a special love to all that he discerneth to be the servants of the Lord. If any be without this, he is ungodly. And we are not to answer for the miscarriages of every Infidel or ungodly man, that will put on the Name of Christianity and Godliness. If there should be fallings out among the godly, they cannot rest till they are healed and set in joynt again. But you must not then be so unjust as to conclude, that we can have no Unity, till we are in all things of a mind. May not men of various complexions be of one Society? Are not the multitudes of Veins and Arteries in your Bodies, united in the trunks and roots? It not the Tree one, that hath many branches?