Irenicum, to the lovers of truth and peace heart-divisions opened in the causes and…

Ye walk as men, says the Apostle, ye should not walk as men, ye should walk as it becomes those whose condition is raised above the condition of men, as it becomes Christians the redeemed ones of the Lord; you say, Can flesh and blood endure this? Can any man living bear this? what if flesh and blood, what if a man cannot? A Christian may, a member of Jesus Christ who is God-man, may. Chrysostom in one of his Sermons to the people of Antioch, brings in Gods gracious dealing with Cain, as an example for them to imitate, in their carriage towards those who carry themselves ill towards them; He brings them in also replying, God indeed was gentle and patient toward Cain, for he is God, he is above all passion, but we are but men; he answers them, Therefore did the Son of God come down, that he might make you as near as may be to God.

Ye walke as men, sayes the Apostle, yee should not walk as men, ye should walk as it becomes those whose condition is raised above the condition of men, as it becomes Christians the redeemed ones of the Lord; you say, Can flesh and blood endure this? Can any man living beare this? what if flessh and blood, what if a man cannot? A Christian may, a member of Jesus Christ who is God-man, may. Chrysostome in one of his Sermons to the people of Antioch, brings in Gods gracious dealing with Cain, as an example for them to imitate, in their carriage towards those who carry themselves ill towards them; He brings them in also replying, God indeed was gentle and patient toward Cain, for hee is God, he is above all passion, but we are but men; he answers them, Therefore did the Son of God come down, that he might make you as near as may be to God.

The Scripture says, The Saints are made partakers of the divine nature; therefore do not say, We are but men. You must not walk as men, but as those who are endued with the Divine nature. It is a great charge that the holy Ghost lays upon the Corinthians, that they walked but as men; yet many come short of the lives of men: they rather walk as dogs, as tigers, as wolves. Gal. 5. 20. The fruits of the flesh are hatred, variance, emulation, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, envyings. All these are the causes or workings of divisions: Surely our divisions are the fruits of the flesh. We see it in nature, the more spiritual any thing is, the more it unites; and the more gross the substance of any thing is, the less it unites; the beams of the Sun are of a kind of spiritual nature, therefore thousands of them will unite in puncto, but it is not so in other things; spiritual hearts in this are like the Sun beams, though thousands of them live together, they will unite in one so long as they continue spiritual. The three thousand Converts,