The true and only way of concord of all the Christian churches the desirableness…

And is not all this joined to the constant experience of all ages, enough to prove, that even among Christians, and good and tolerable Christians, yea among all, there will still be differences in degrees of knowledge and virtue, and consequently discords in some matters of Religion, higher or lower more or less?

And is not all this joyned to the constant experience of all ages, enough to prove, that even among Christians, and good and tolerable Christians, yea among all, there will still be differences in degrees of knowledge and virtue, and consequently discords in some matters of Religion, higher or lower more or less?

§. 23. II. It is therefore certain that while there will be discord in Judgement, there will be also discord in professions, and in practice. For honest mens professions and practices will agree with their judgements in the main. Even Paul and Barnabas will part when their judgements lead them so to do When men have not the same measure of skill and accurateness in expressing their own minds, and in speaking properly, grammatically, logically, significantly, agreeably to the thing spoken, nor the same skill in defining, or distinguishing, or sitting the true sense of words, they will really differ, and they will verbally differ, and seem to most unskilful judges, to differ really when they do not.

§. 24. It is not therefore to be expected that if some men think that long doctrinal confessions formed in mens private words, or Liturgies or other humane forms, have nothing in them untrue, or evil, or which all men may not consent to, therefore all others must think so too, and say as they: who can think that in many thousand uncertain words, all men can and must be of the same mind, and approve them all alike? Or that honest men can lye, and say that they assent to what they do not?