OF UNITY IN RELIGION
RELIGION being the chief band of human society, it is a happy thing, when itself is well contained within the true band of unity. The quarrels,and divisions about religion, were evils unknown to the heathen. The reason was, because the religion of the heathen, consisted rather in rites and ceremonies,than in any constant belief. For you may imagine,what kind of faith theirs was, when the chief doctors,and fathers of their church, were the poets. But the true God hath this attribute, that he is a jealous God;and therefore, his worship and religion, will endure no mixture, nor partner. We shall therefore speak a few words, concerning the unity of the church; what are the fruits thereof; what the bounds; and what the means.