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So that you see, though there is diversity of gifts and employmenss; yet they all agree in one; it's unity therefore among Ministers and the people, that is made the ground of concord: This would be a very necessary subject in these times of multiplied divisions, it being very hard now a days to say, He that watereth, and he that planteth are one: But I shall pass it over briefly in one Sermon. Now this phrase, They are one, is not to be understood essentially, as if they were one nature; in which sense 1 Joh. 5. it's said, There are three that bear witness is heaven, and these three are one. Nor secondly are they one in respect of labour and worth; No, Paul laboured more abundantly then they all; and as the stars differ from one another; so do the Ministers of God in worth and ability: Therefore the Apostle prevents such thoughts, by the words appendant, Every man shall receive according to his own labour: Unum sunt non individuo, non gradu, non donis, non vocatione, non autoritate, non tempore, non labore, nec non maerore, saith Baldwin on the place. But they are said to be one in regard of the scope and end for which the Ministry is appointed, viz. to gather a Church unto God, and to build them up in saith and godliness. Observe

So that you see, though there is diversity of gifts and employmenss; yet they all agree in one; it's unity therefore among Ministers and the people, that is made the ground of concord: This would be a very necessary subject in these times of multiplyed divisions, it being very hard now a daies to say, He that watereth, and he that planteth are one: But I shall pass it over briefly in one Sermon. Now this phrase, They are one, is not to be understood essentially, as if they were one nature; in which sence 1 Joh. 5. it's said, There are three that bear witness is heaven, and these three are one. Nor secondly are they one in respect of labour and worth; No, Paul laboured more abundantly then they all; and as the starres differ from one another; so do the Ministers of God in worth and ability: Therefore the Apostle prevents such thoughts, by the words appendant, Every man shall receive according to his own labour: Ʋnum sunt non individuo, non gradu, non donis, non vocatione, non autoritate, non tempore, non labore, nec non maerore, saith Baldwin on the place. But they are said to be one in regard of the scope and end for which the Ministery is appointed, viz. to gather a Church unto God, and to build them up in saith and godliness. Observe