§. 13. 11. And the great difference among Preachers and Pastors of the Church will be as powerful a cause of discord to youth and learners, as almost any of the rest: while one Preacher condemneth that as a dangerous error, and frighteneth them from it as a heinous sin, which another extolleth as necessary truth or duty. And yet thus it is in many particulars even where men profess the same Religion: witness the many loads of books that are written by the Papists against each other; As the Dominicans against the Jesuits, and the Jesuits against them; The Jansenists against both, and their odious charges of highest false doctrines and crimes in their provincial Letters, and the Jesuits Morals: Gulielmus de sancto Amore and his partners against the Friars; The secular Priests against the regulars, such as Watson in his Quodlibets, and abundance more such like: And in what Country almost or City do not preachers in some measure differ, and breed diversity of senses in the people? Which Paul foretold even in the purest times and Church, that of their own selves should men arise speaking perverse things to draw away disciples after them. Besides the grievous Wolves that should enter and devour the flock, Act. 20. 30. It must be that heresies must arise, that they that are approved may be made manifest. In Corinth some were of Paul, and some of Apollo and some of Cephas, and they had such divisions as showed them to be much carnal; At Rome they judged and despised one another about meats and drinks and days: Rom. 14. & 15. And some caused divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which they had learned, Rom. 16. 16, 17. In Galatia ⟨p. 85⟩they had Judaizing teachers that troubled them. And at Antioch some taught them that except they were circumcised and kept the Law of Moses they could not be saved, Act. 15. 1, &c. In Asia some Churches had Nicolaitans, and such as taught them to eat things offered to Idols, and to commit fornication, and the woman Jezebel that seduced them: and some had such as Diotrephes that received not the brethren and cast out those that did, and prated even against the beloved Apostle with malicious words: Divers Churches had perverse disputers, about the Law and genealogies, and such as strove about words that profited not, but to the subverting of the hearers:
§. 13. 11. And the great difference among Preachers and Pastors of the Church will be as powerful a cause of discord to youth and learners, as almost any of the rest: while one Preacher condemneth that as a dangerous errour, and frighteneth them from it as a heinous sin, which another extolleth as necessary truth or duty. And yet thus it is in many particulars even where men profess the same Religion: witness the many loads of books that are written by the Papists against each other; As the Dominicans against the Jesuites, and the Jesuites against them; The Jansenists against both, and their odious charges of highest false doctrines and crimes in their provincial Letters, and the Jesuits Morals: Gulielmus de sancto Amore and his partners against the Fryars; The secular Priests against the regulars, such as Watson in his Quodlibets, and abundance more such like: And in what Countrey almost or City do not preachers in some measure differ, and breed diversity of senses in the people? Which Paul foretold even in the purest times and Church, that of their own selves should men arise speaking perverse things to draw away disciples after them. Besides the grievous Wolves that should enter and devour the flock, Act. 20. 30. It must be that heresies must arise, that they that are approved may be made manifest. In Corinth some were of Paul, and some of Apollo and some of Cephas, and they had such divisions as shewed them to be much carnal; At Rome they judged and despised one another about meats and drinks and dayes: Rom. 14. & 15. And some caused divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which they had learned, Rom. 16. 16, 17. In Galati• ⟨p. 85⟩they had Judaizing teachers that troubled them. And at Antioch some taught them that except they were circumcised and kept the Law of Moses they could not be saved, Act. 15. 1, &c. In Asia some Churches had Nicolaitans, and such as taught them to eat things offered to Idols, and to commit fornication, and the woman Jezabel that seduced them: and some had such as Diotrephes that received not the brethren and cast out those that did, and prated even against the beloved Apostle with malicious words: Divers Churches had perverse disputers, about the Law and genealogies, and such as strove about words that profited not, but to the subverting of the hearers:
