The staves of beauty & bands opened in a sermon preached at Yarmouth, August…The staves of beauty & bands opened in a sermon preached at Yarmovth, August…

This Enmity Christ came to heal, and to remove, by preaching, and by giving peace unto men, working the hearts of his people to be at unity and peace one with another; in which respect Christ saith of his Church, My Dove, my undefiled is but one, Cant, 6. 9. Now a thing may be said to be one two manner of ways; there is unum per unitatem, when a thing is so one, as that it doth not any way consist of many, as God is one by the absolute simplicity of his Nature, without any diversity of part and part, power and act, matter and form, subject and accident, being and not being: There is likewise unum per unionem, ⟨p. 29⟩when one thing is constituted, and made up of many things united and joined together, and thus the Church is One. ^hWe being many, saith the Apostle, are one bread, and one body. And again, as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body, so also is Christ. In this respect it is compared sometimes to anⁱ Army, made up of many Soldiers, ordered into Companies and Regiments, under the Command of one General, called the^k Captain of the Host of the Lord, and the^l Captain of our Salvation. Sometimes to^m a City compacted together, and accurately proportioned in all the parts and measures thereof: Sometimes to the Tabernacle of the Congregation, whereinⁿ divers Curtains were coupled and joined together, by loops and taches, into one Sanctuary: Sometimes to the Temple, ^owherein many goodly stones were framed and fitted into a Magnificent Structure, in which respect the Church is^p called the House ⟨p. 30⟩