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But indeed were there one Universal Language it would not be enough to heal us. For we are mostly so dull of nature, & so slothful in our Studies, and so apt to speak as our parents or first Masters or company teach us, that we are utterly disagreed and unreconcilable about the sense of our ommon words in our Mother Tongue. So that if English were the only Language of the World, we should still be disagreed: I have been a great contemner of vain ostentation in Critical or Verbal Skill: But I see that rightly used about things necessary, it must be a principal help to end most of our Controversies.

But indeed were there one Universal Language it would not be enough to heal us. For we are mostly so dull of nature, & so slothful in our Studies, and so apt to speak as our parents or first Masters or •ompany teach us, that we are utterly disagreed and unreconcileable about the sense of our ommon words in our Mother Tongue. So that if English were the only Language of the World, we should still be disagreed: I have been a great comtemner of vain ostentation in Critical or Verbal Skill: But I see that rightly used about things necessary, it must be a principal help to end most of our Controversies.

§. 3. Though supernatural Revelation far exceedeth the mere light of Nature, and the teachings of the Creation▪ yet the difficulty of learning and speaking many Languages, without which we cannot Preach abroad in the World, and the Universal Wars about words that take up and corrupt mankind, do make me read the 19 Psalm. with great regard, and not think so hardly as I have been tempted to do, of Gods dealing with the heathen and generality of mankind, while the Heavens declare the glory of God, and the firmament showeth his handy works, while day unto day utters Knowledge and while Sun Moon, and Stars, do Preach God with so loud a voice, and their sound goeth through all the World and there is no Nation or ⟨image 11⟩Tongue where their sound is not heard: And it is not a Syllable or Letter, an Accent or an Emphasis, that doth obscure their sense. And they all tell the World that God is, and that he is the rewarder of them that diligently seek him. And that the invisible things of God are seen by the things that are made, and in him we live and move and have our being, and that in every Nation, he that feareth God and worketh righteousness is accepted of him. It is most legible in the book of Nature, and Providence, that God useth all the World upon terms of mercy, and not according to the utmost desert of sin; and that this mercy should lead them to repentance, and that God is infinitely good, and therefore to be Loved above all: And that he that truly so loveth God, shall not lie in Hell and be separated from him.