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…

4. To be spiritual and heavenly minded; for as heavenly bodies, so heavenly minds are the proper subjects of Serenity and Tranquillity;^k Storms and ⟨p. 76⟩Tempests are the Effects of earthly exhalations; heavenly Orbs are steady and regular, have no Combustions nor disagreements in them; Schisms and Divisions are^l from the flesh, and come from us as Men, not as Christians. As the reasonable Soul doth bind the parts of the body together in Unity; when that is gone, they are in a near disposition to dissolve, and fall asunder: So the^m Spirit of Christ is the bond of his body; the Apostle calleth it▪ The Unity of the Spirit in the bond of Peace; the more we have theⁿ mind of Christ, the less we shall do things through strife, vain-glory, revenge, or any other inordinate passion; for the^o Wisdom which is from above, is pure and peaceable; but that which tendeth unto envying and strife, descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual and devilish.

4. To be spiritual and heavenly minded; for as heavenly bodies, so heavenly minds are the proper subjects of Serenity and Tranquillity;^k Storms and ⟨p. 76⟩Tempests are the Effects of earthly exhalations; heavenly Orbs are steady and regular, have no Combustions nor disagreements in them; Schisms and Divisions are^l from the flesh, and come from us as Men, not as Christians. As the reasonable Soul doth bind the parts of the body together in Unity; when that is gone, they are in a near disposition to dissolve, and fall asunder: So the