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§. 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?

§. 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 formes, 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?

§. 25. And if mens judgements differ about matters of practice, in essentials, integrals or accidents, their practice will accordingly differ. He that judgeth a thing unlawful will not do it, if he fear God and be truly conscionable. Had Images been lawfully used in places or exercises of Gods worship, yet it was inhumane and unchristian in those Bishops and Councils who cursed from Christ all that were of the contrary mind, and pronounced it an intolerable heresy, and ejected and silenced dissenters, and raised wars and bloodshed for such a difference: Much more unchristian was it for the Roman Pope to rebel against his proper Prince, the Greek Emperor, and alienate the Western Empire from him, to the French, on that account, and to excommunicate and depose Emperors as heretics called Iconoclasts, as if Imagery had been an Article of faith, or a necessary universal Command of God: For how can that be a heresy that is not a plain denial or subversion of any necessary article of faith or practice? And sure no such for Images is in the Creed or Decalogue.