Heaven upon earth in the serene tranquillity and calm composure, in the sweet peace…

For the 2d. Take some aggredging circumstances, which will make this the more wonderful. As 1. That Believers may Err▪ be mistaken, and go wrong, when in a very tender Christian frame; As is clear in the forecited instances of the Patriarchs of Job's Friends, and of the Apostles, and Believers in the Primitive Times, for, will any I pray deny, but they were in a good frame, when they had so much Liberty in Prayer, and Preaching, and such success waiting on it? so that the Devils were subject to them, They were also singularly dauted, and dandled in a manner, by Christ Jesus himself; and had so much access to God, and so much of his countenance, yet continuing still for a great while in some of these their Errors, and Mistakes. 2. That this may be, not only among the more common sort of Believers, but even also amongst the most eminent; for, are there any more eminent then there we have named▪ viz. The Patriarchs, Apostles and Disciples of our Lord? And we may add that of Paul and Barnabas, Acts 15 ⟨p. 74⟩36, 39. What the particular was about which the contest was, we shall not offer now to decide; it is sure in the matter, one of them was wrong, and it is like both in the manner, and yet both though themselves to be right. 3. There may be mistakes in very concerning and important Truths: Is not that a concerning Truth, about which Jobs Friends disputed with him, viz. That God would not temporally plague a godly man? And was not that a concerning Truth anent the nature of Christs Kingdom, wherein the Disciples were mistaken and wrong? And if we speak of matters of Fact, was not that of the Fathers, and other Saints, in the matter of Bigamy, and Polygamy a concerning thing? yet all of them thought themselves to be right, neither did they, (for any thing we know) go against an explicit challenge of their Conscience, in that matter. 4ly. It is not one or two, but many that may be under such mistakes, many of the Fathers were mistaken, Job's Friends were so, all the Apostles were so, many thousands, yea, ten thousands of the Jews that believed (as it were almost all the Believers of that Country) were so, being all zealous of the ceremonial Law, when yet it was abrogat. 5ly. They may be exceeding fervent and forward, & in that wherein they Err, very bent on it;