The substance of two sermons one touching composing of controversies, another touching unity of…

III. In that the Apostle saith, If in any thing ye be otherwise minded, viz. touching Legal Rites, and Mosaical Ceremonies, or touching the Doctrine of Christian perfection, and the weakness of your present graces and attainments, the Lord will in due time out of his Word, and by his Spirit, if you be careful in the use of means, and attendant upon his teaching, reveal the same unto you. We may from hence learn, That in the best ages of the Church there have been, and therefore we cannot expect but that there ever will be, varieties and differences of judgment amongst the Members thereof; 1. While we know but in part, and prophesy but in part, 2. While there is difficulty in the disquisition of truth, 3. Weakness of judgement in men to make that inquiry, 4. Carelessness to try the spirits, and to prove all things, 5. Prevalency of some Lust or spiritual Interest darkening the mind, and entangling ⟨p. 18⟩the judgment. 6. Credulity in attending unto false Teachers, 7. Itching ears, affecting and hankering after novel suggestions. 8. A too great Reverence to the persons of men, having them in admiration, and giving our selves up by a blind obedience, and implicit faith unto their hands, 9. While there is sleepiness and inadvertency in the labourers, 10. Cunning and Sedulity in the adversaries. 11. Unweariednesse in circumambulation and supersemination of the envious man, we cannot expect but there will be [Greek or Hebrew], men that will not in all things agree with their brethren, we cannot wonder to see some Corn in the field of the Church smutted and mildewed, and kept back from maturity by the twisting of weeds about it. When we remember the angry dissentions between the ^aWestern and Eastern Churches in the case of Easter, the sad differences ^bbetween the Roman Church, and the African and other Churches, in the business of Rebaptization in the days of Cyprian, the doleful ^cdissentions between ⁴Chrysostom and Epiphanius breaking forth ⁵