The carnality of religious contention in two sermons preached at the merchant's lecture in…The carnality of religious contention in two sermons preach'd at the merchant's lecture in…

Such Schemes or Collections of Doctrines, reduced into an Order (as Gold formed into a Vessel, whereas Truth, as it lies in the Holy Scriptures is as Gold in the Mass) may be of use (as they have always been used in the Church in all Ages) more distinctly to inform others concerning our Sentiments (tho' the use is less, that after thorough search and enquiry ⟨p. xxii⟩they can be of to one self) provided, they be avowed to be looked upon, but as a mensura mensurata, reserving unto the Scriptures the Honour of being the only mensura mensurans; and so that we only own them as agreeable to the Scriptures. And again, that we declare we take them to be agreeable thereto in the main, or for substance, without attributing a Sacredness to the very Words of a mere humane Composition; which indeed we cannot attribute to the words used in the Translation of the Bible it self. And that for the things we believe them with a degree of Assent proportionable to their greater or less Evidence.

Such Schemes or Collections of Doctrines, reduced into an Order (as Gold formed into a Vessel, whereas Truth, as it lies in the Holy Scriptures is as Gold in the Mass) may be of use (as they have always been used in the Church in all Ages) more distinctly to inform others concerning our Sentiments (tho' the use is less, that after thorough search and enquiry ⟨p. xxii⟩they can be of to one self) provided, they be avowed to be lookt upon, but as a mensura mensurata, reserving unto the Scriptures the Honour of being the only mensura mensurans; and so that we only own them as agreeable to the Scriptures. And again, that we declare we take them to be agreeable thereto in the main, or for substance, without attributing a Sacredness to the very Words of a meer humane Composition; which indeed we cannot attribute to the words used in the Translation of the Bible it self. And that for the things we believe them with a degree of Assent proportionable to their greater or less Evidence.

This, through the blessing of God, such as have used a sincere and ingenuous freedom with one another, have found an effectual Expedient to deliver their minds from mutual doubt, concerning each other, that because of some different modes of expressing their Sentiments, they held very different Opinions, which they have found to be a Mistake on one hand and the other; and have given and received satisfaction, they intended nothing that ought to be reckoned into the Account of