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…

And here it cannot be denied, but that in all ages of the Church, there have been, and still are like to be, Varieties of Judgement among the Members thereof. For 1. The best Proficients^r know but in part, and Prophesy but in part. 2. There are many things very abstruse and difficult in the disquisition of divine Truth; Religion hath its^s [Greek or Hebrew], things hard to be understood, as well as other Sciences. 3. There is in many men much ^tweakness of Judgement, to make ⟨p. 65⟩search and enquiry into these things, or to discover veritatem in puteo latentem. 4. There is much carelessness of heart in many men to try the spirits, and to prove all things; they^u sleep while the enemy soweth Tares. 5. There is in many men a Levity, Lubricity and Discomposedness of mind whereby they are apt to be^w carried away with every wind of Doctrine, and out of Simplicity and Credulity to be wrought upon by the cunning of those who are skilful to deceive. 6. Some have^x itching ears, hearkening always after new things, whom Manna will not please without Quails, who have some particular mens persons in admiration, and give up themselves by a blind obedience and implicit Faith, into their hands, to be led by them into novel and singular Opinions. 7. Prevailing of Lust and domestical Interest, doth in many men darken their mind, and entangle their Judgements, and betray them unto that sad condition of being ^ygiven over to strong Delusions to believe ⟨p. 66⟩Lies. Upon these and such like Reasons there have been always Differences in the Church: We find a contention between