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Difference of Judgment hath, and ever will, be in the Minds of Men; And why so? [ 1307]
THere was never any Instrument so perfectly in tune, in which the next hand that ••ouched it, did not amend some thing: Nor is there any Iudg∣ment so strong and perspicatious, from which another will not in somethings find ground of Variance; See we not in the ancient Churches,* 1.1 those great lights in their severall Ages at variance amongst themselves? Ireneus with Victor, Cyprian with Stephen, Ierome with Austin, Basil with Damasus, Chrysostome with Epiphanius, Cyril with Theodoret. Desired it may be,* 1.2 Desired it may be, but hoped it cannot, That in the Church of God there would be no noyse of Axes and Hammers, no di••••erence in judgments and conceits; For while there is corruption in our Nature, narrow∣nesse in our Faculties,* 1.3 sleepinesse in our Eyes, dif••iculty in our Profession, cunning in our Enemies,* 1.4 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 hard things in the Scripture, and an envious Man to superseminate, there will still be 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, Men that will be different∣ly minded; In this hard necessity therefore, when the first evil cannot be easily avoided, our Wisdome must be to prevent the second, that where there is not Perfection, yet there may be Peace; that dissentions of Iudgments break not forth into dis-union of hearts, but that amidst the variety of our several conceits, we pre∣serve still the Unity of Faith and Love, by which onely we are known to be Christ's Disciples.