Blessed unions. An union with the son of God by faith. And, an union…

this Work of th• Flesh must needs be distasteful to th•• Spirit. When we don't put away […] Bitterness, and Wrath, and Anger, […] do fearfully Grieve Him, and shame full put Him away. Cloven and Fiery Tongue were things in which he once Exhibited himself; but Cloven and Fur•ou• Hearts he is ever Banished from. Strife 'tis a Sin that stirs up all other sort of Distempers and Corruptions in us the Lusts in our Souls, like so man chilled, Snakes, do horribly Crawl, an• Hiss, and Sting, when this Fire […] ⟨p. 53⟩[…] Envigorated 'em: The Devil has Lodging where men do not Ring a •urse […] Bell. We are as Bottles; if we take and shake one another, a world of dirty Stuff will be Raised from the Bottom in us. The Aggressor, and the Defendant will be to each other, what Solomon speaks, A• Coals to Burning Coals. Strife, 'tis a Sin which hardens our Hearts against all the Means of Grace and Good; we shall receive no Admonitions, but like Angry Jon•s, misbehave our selves; and say, I do well in all. And thus all the Spectators too do come to be prejudiced at the Ways of God; as the Jews are at this Day so Scandalized by our Dissensions, that they plead, The Eleventh-Chapter of Isaiah is not fulfilled, and •o the Messiah can't be come! Thus, there was a T ••n in this Land, where an uncomfortable Rupture happened in the Church; and there a young man was left unto an horrid Murder of himself; but he left behind him a Writing directed unto his Father, wherein he approved himself: a Warner to us all; ⟨p. 54⟩some of his words were, Father, […] Ruin was the Stubbornness and u• faithfulness of my Younger Years Evil Council, and Evil Company, and The Differences in the Church, by reason whereof I grow▪ proud, and did-not carr• it in my place as I ought, which is the wide way to Ruin. You see what sa work, the Contentions of Churches d make for the Rising Generations! O Consider of it! Strife, In fine, 'tis that which brings all manner of Wounds upon us. Our Prayers, they cannot be without Doubting, when they are no without Wrath. Our astings, they cannot be such as the Lord has Chosen, while we are Biting one another. Our Sacraments do lose their Efficacies, if such a strange Fire do accompany them. Who are those that must at-last perish without? Why, The Dogs, that are ever a snappish and a snarling sort of Creature?