[ 1045] God bringing Order out of Confusion.
PAul and Barnabas continued a long time in the work of the Ministery toge∣ther,* 1.1 at last they fell out about a motion to visite the Churches, where they had formerly preached; Barnabas will by all means have Mark along with him; No, says Paul, that shall not be, because he was not at the planting of the Churches; One will not go without him, and the other will by no means go with him; The Contention at last grows so high, that it comes to a Non-communion, they depart∣ed asunder one from the other;* 1.2 one went one way, and the other went another, and by this means the knowledge of God was more spread abroad, the Gospell of Iesus Christ further dispersed; O faelix contentio &c. (said a good old Christian) O happy falling out of two, that was the falling in of so many unto Christ: And thus God, when his own time is, can bring good out of evill, light out of darkness, and order out of confusion, in making up the breaches, and composing the differences both in Church and Common-wealth.