into several branches they have put a stop to their conquests and had no further thought than to maintain themselvs both those whom they have forsaken and such as have forsaken them And it is not only from the ill example of this division that strangers to the Faith are driven from it They are led thereunto by the very intrigues and stratagems of the Christians who are so separated and divided among themselves Their Division creates such animosity one against the other that they do their utmost endeavour to hinder those who have an earnest desire to embrace Christianity from entring into any other Christian communion but their own There are others who go further for they hold it as a true Maxime That it is better for a Jew or Mahometan to persist in his old Errour than to thrust himself into some of the Christian Societies which they disapprove So that as it is impossible for Iron equally drawn between two Loadstones to move either towards the one or the other So these different solicitations which Christians make to draw Infidels to them leaves them in a neutral state not knowing which side they should take nor to which they should determine their Judgments CHAP. VI. The Fifth Effect of this Division Trouble in Church and State THe Evil of this Division is not limited only to particular persons but all Societies as well Ecclesiastical as Civil have too great a feeling of it For we dayly see strange Tempests happen in both which had no other cause for the forming of them than this sad disunion And has not the Church much reason to complain that those who are called her Children should tear out her Bowels That she can expect nothing but death even from those to whom she hath given life Since they to whom she continually administers the sacred Milk of her pure Doctrine and of her wholsome Instructions do give her so many grievous wounds as they form Sects in her In multiplying they dismember Her and each striving to draw her to their side at last nothing is seen to remain but her mangled and broken pieces And what is more these deplorable Reliques of the Church have likewise been so miserably handled that she is no longer to be known insomuch that they might rather be taken for the parts of some mishapen Monster than for the Members of the Divine Spouse of Jesus Christ washed in the Blood of her dear Lord and clothed with the Sacred Robe of his Righteousness But that I may not be thought to aggravate these things and raise them with an Hyperbole Let us but consider the present face of the Church Is it not true that we shall have much ado to meet any one of these Societies which call themselves a Church and attribute the truth solely to themselves where these ill Characters are not to be seen First a certain high conceited Opinion of the Principles they have embraced which creates in them a blind perswasion without examining it and whereof not any solid reason can be given Birth Education Worldly Interests and other engagements of this nature together with a kind of negligence and a fear of being accounted inconstant and unsetled if they should turn to another party These things I say have ordinarily a greater influence for the establishment of them in their Religion than Reason and Conscience have All which is followed by a certain obstinacy not to call it self-conceitedness in maintaining their belief at any rate whatsoever There are those who many times do hazard on this occasion all that they hold dearest in the World even to their very lives which passes in every One of these Societies for an exquisit Zeal and an examplary devotion Nor is there any one of these Sects which has not a Catalogue of its Confessors and that cannot produce its Roll of Martyrs But how many are there of these Martyrs who if they had been demanded to give a reason of the Doctrine for which they made so much constancy appear would have been gravelled and have little to answer to the least argument that might have been proposed to them Many times false Opinions are maintained with as much heat as the True Also Illusions and Impostures do make as strong Impression upon our Spirits as real Objâ—cts Now this obstinacy draws after it an extreme aversion to all other Religions and even to all other Christian Societies It either accuses them of blindness or of stupidity or of malice 'T is nothing else say they but fleshly interest that seems a Foundation of their Doctrine They reproach them that their Opinions are altogether destructive to true Piety that they hurry Men into Superstition and to Idolatry or else to Libertinisme or Atheisme And some there are who are pointed out by others as if they were frightful Monsters In a word any protestation or any declaration which they make that it is the Doctrine they loath and not the Persons who take it up That it is the Error they detest but that they have charity and compassion for such as are misled is enough with them Which yet shall never make me believe But that the precedent qualities are accompanied with a great Animosity of Spirit against those who are not of the same Opinion For how can we sincerely love those whom we look upon as Enemies to God and Disciples of Satan whose Lot and Portion is Hell where they shall be made a Prey to the Devils Are there not likewise very dreadful Examples in what manner they have reciprocally treated one another in those places where they are mingled together The weak employ such armes as are most convenient against their Adversaries which are injuries and reproaches the powerful straight pass to action there is no craft nor subtilty no violence nor cruelty which these People sâ—t not a work utterly to exterminate such as follow a different profession from theirs The Roman Catholick persecutes the Protestant in those places where he is strongest The Protestant he requites him where he has the Power and Authority in his own hands And amongst Protestants those who are of different Opinions are not treated more favourably Heretofore the Christians complained much that the Pagans would force them to sacrifice to their Gods and quit their Religion Tertul. Apolog. 28. They grounded not their complaint on any other Reason than this that Religion as they affirmed ought to be an act of a pure and free Mind But now a days Christians do the same thing towards Christians We have seen times where tortures and the cruelest punishments have been used by Christians for afflicting other Christians and for no other cause but their not being of the same judgments and perswasions And now after this who can take it ill that I have no more represented the Church as the Ship which the Son of God conveyeth safe amidst the stormes wherewith she is continually battered But to the lamentable wracks of a Vessel dasht in pieces not by
of this Division That it makes men irreligious and causes Atheism 35 CHAP. V. The Fourth Effect of this Division That it keeps back all those who are without and breeds in them a dislike of Christian Religion 44 CHAP. VI. The Fifth Effect of this Division Trouble in Church and State The Second Part. Of the Causes of this Division which is among Christians CHAP. I. THat the frame and temper of mens Minds doth much contribute to this evil p. 69 CHAP. II. That there has never yet been made a true distinction in Christian Religion of what is really essential and fundamental and what is not 80 CHAP. III. That men have departed from the true fundamentals of Christian Religion to take up others which have nothing of solidity in them and which put these divisions among Christians 88 CHAP. IV. That the dislike which has been had at the simplicity of Christian Religion has been an occasion that meâ— have given it a different â—â—â—â—ct frâ—m that which it had in its â—â—â—inning 97 CHAP. V. That many do make use of Religion to serve their particular interests and the advantages of a temporal life 106 The Third Part. Of the proper means to reunite all Christians into one sole communion CHAP. I. Of the ill means that has been made use of hitherto for putting a remedy to the evil of this Division 117 CHAP. II. The first mean To lay aside all prejudices and to throw off all particular interests that so nothing may be proposed by us but the Glory of God and the Salvation of Souls 128 CHAP. III. The second means That we should not have for our direction more than one known and generally approved Rule for all Christians to walk by 142 CHAP. III. The third means Rightly to distinguish between the Doctrines which the Holy Scriptures propound to be believed by all true Christians and what regards only the outward Government of the Church and its ceremonies 150 CHAP. V. The fourth means To distinguish between that which the Scriptures proposes to us to believe as Doctrine of Salvation that which it delivers to us as Histories of things which have happened and that which it reports to us as predictions of things to come 163 CHAP. VI. Fifth Advice Touching the Mysteries of Christian Religion which we must believe as being revealed in the Holy Scriptures and concerning the distinction which must be made of them 170 CHAP. VII What ways must be follow'd to facilitate the execution of this design 186 CHAP. VIII Answers to the Objections and Difficulties which may be formed against this design 199 CONCLUSION Profits and advantages which might be hoped for from this Project 218 THE RE-VNITING OF CHRISTIANITY The First Part. Of the Division which is among Christians and of its Consequencies CHAP. I. Of the Nature and Greatness of this Division WHen St. Paul said That it was necessary there should be Heresies amongst us to the end that such as are approved might be made manifest His words must not be taken as if he would by an extravagant Paradox Authorize the diversity of Opinions in Christianity For his design was never to favour the Authors of Sects and Heads of Patties by imposing silence to those who would remedy Divisions and put a stop to their sad consequencies But he declares plainly what we must expect from the ill disposition of the spirits of Men from the high esteem which they have of their own sufficiency and from their inclination to render themselves considerable by some singular Opinions in matters of Religion He designs by the same means to make us see how the providence of God which draws good out of evil and light out of the thickest darkness takes occasion from thence to distinguish such as appeartain to him making appear by this contradiction of sinners the constancy of the Servants of God and their generous resistance to all sorts of temptations and tryals It is in this sence also that Jesus Christ declares to us the necessity of scandals and tribulations arising in the Church and that he is come to kindle the Fire-brand of War in the World and to put Divisions in States and Families for otherwise the Gospel which is the Ministry of Grace and a Word of Reconciliation and Peace does not of it self propose any thing but union amity and concord Nature although sprung from the same Original with Grace hath inclinations quite distinct It is not pleased but in diversity and seems not to subsist but by the contrariety of qualities which occur in its works whereas Grace is not preserved but by the entire correspondence of those who â—â—ve a share therein and by the conformity of their Opinions We cannot divide our selves in its Principles without destroying it to us For such a separation is to give it such grievous wounds as will force it to retire from those who are not more careful to improve it by such wayes as are most suitable to its nature Now is it not a most deplorable thing that an occasion should be taken of making use of a Doctrine of Peace for the miserable tearing in pieces a Body whose Members ought to be perfectly united Is it not a shameful thing that this unhappy Pro and Con should be introduced to make the same havock in the Church which it ordinarily makes in the World Philosophy never saw so many Sects Paganisme so many different Devotions Mahometisme so many contradictory Opinions concerning their Alcoran as we have Sects Heresies and Schismes in Christianity about the understanding of its fundamental Law which is the Gospel As soon as the sprouts of this Holy Seed began to appear upon the face of the Earth we saw at the same time an infinite number of unprofitable and choaking Tares spring up sufficient to destroy that in its birth which would bring with it Salvation and Life Almost in the sight of the Holy Apostles those Sacred Confidents of our Soveraign Master there arose such as vaunting themselves to have embraced his Doctrine would have represented him after their fancies and set him forth as their own whimsies and caprichioes suggested to them And presently afterwards would make their particular Sentiments pass for general and infallible Rules and have pretended that all others were obliged to submit themselves thereto Thus the Blood of Jesus Christ which still reeking should warm the hearts of Christians with a Holy Charity as well as with an Ardent Zeal could not choak the Seeds of these miserable Divisions Insomuch that in the Third Age St. Epiphanius numbers up Four-score several Heresies or rather different Opinions which had crept in amongst the Christians and yet not mentioning the divers Branches into which these Heresies were sub divided There is scarcely any one Article of Faith or any speculation of Christianity whereon strange Opinions have not been advanced which in time have made Sects and different Religions And we know that every particular Combination has appropriated to it self the
Name of a Church and boasted to be the Spouse of the Son of God to the utter exclusion of all others They have also gone further for besides the Heavenly Doctrine contained in the Gospel where they have taken occasion of raising disputes They have forged such as have been meerly humane concerning which there hath also been miserable Divisions And as though these Men had climbed up to Heaven to consult the very Mouth of God himself they have Preached up their Doctrines as Oracles and Fundamental Truths After which they have had no great trouble to engage their Followers to suffer the most cruel Torments and even Death it self in defence of their Opinion and after that have confidently enrolled them in their own Legend as Martyrs of Jesus Christ though they suffered only to advance the glory and reputation of some Arch-Heretique So God to chastize the rashness and confound the vanity of their thoughts has permitted that Division should ruine their work as heretofore it defeated the insolent designs of those who would erect the Tower of Babel After that we have once forsaken the Royal Road which God has prescribed us we run into all by paths and separate our selves one from another each of us fancying to be in the most commodious and safest way Can you likewise believe that a separation is sometimes made about Subjects not only light and trivial but in some sort ridiculous and which do redound to the shame of those who made them serviceable to the ends of their Schisme and Division What contentions have there not been among Christians namely on what Day the Celebration of Easter should be observed If in the Communion Bread leavened or unleavened should be made use of If the Body of Jesus Christ was corruptible after its conception or not If we may say that one of the Trinity was Crucified If the Church can condemn and excommunicate one that is dead If the Hallelujah might be Sung in Lent and other Questions of the like nature Behold here what are ordinarily the subjects which cause these most real calamities Behold that which separates those who with one consent should advance the glory of their common Master But to come to our times and more neerly to touch upon the evil which troubles us at present and which has given me occasion of laying open my sence to contribute to a Remedy Is it not a lamentable thing and of sad Example to see Christians so miserably divided as they are at this Day For to let pass the divers Sects of Christians which are in the East and who have more cause to grieve for their lamentable Divisions than for their miserable state under the rigorous Yoke of the Mahometans such are the Greeks of Armenia and Circassia the Nestorians Jacobites Maronites Cophtes Christians of St. Thomas c. People who are looked upon as Hereticks or Schismaticks and who believe that out of their particular communion there is no Salvation to be expected Let us insist only upon this deplorable condition of the Christians of Europe in these Countreys wherein we live There is no heart so hard that does not sigh to behold so strange a dis-union There is no truly Christian Soul that does not grieve to see the effects of the implacable sudes and hatreds which are amongst those who are looked upon as Brethren Since they are thereby exposed to the continual insolencies of the sworn Enemies of Christianity Since this great breach which is made in the Western Church by the separation of the Protestants from the Communion of the Church of Rome what Bloody Wars How many Murders and Massacres What changes and subversions is in States has there not been seen insomuch that they have not stuck to have recourse to the common Enemy to draw in succour against those with whom they should have entertain'd a true Brotherly affection And that which is most deplorable is that this division hath been followed by an infinite company of others and as a fruitful Mother hath produced an incredible number of Monsters which resemble it These two great Branches growing out one from the other have also sprouting out of them a vast company of lesser Branches which although not equal in strength bring forth fruits altogether as dangerous as their Mother Among Protestants how many several Sects in Germany in England in France in the Low-Countreys c. There needs but some diversity in the habits of Preachers some difference in the Ceremonies or in the Ornaments of Churches or of the Government thereof to form a Sect. A simple dissenting in the Liberty which every one gives himself of expounding according to his Fancy the misteries which are above his reach is sufficient to cause a separation The manner of explaining the subject of Predestination and oâ— Reconciling God's Grace with the Motions of the Will of Man makes us look upon those who are of a different Opinion as such People as are in the high-way of Damnation and with whom we must not entertaâ—â— any Communion Nor may they who have lived in Communion with the Church of Rome insult at this Division of the Protestants and pretend that union and concord have continued amongst them without any division For although they all submit themselves in appearance to the Authority of one only Head and that they look upon him as the Center wherein all the Lines of their Society do meet and are reunited nevertheless we are not ignorant how great the number of their dissentions are and how little the union is amongst their Doctors 〈◊〉 that if the fear of a Superior Authority seems to retain them in one and the same Society their hatreds are but the more fermented within They do not less condemn one another of Heresie and of being out of the way of Salvation And the Exâ—mples of our Age have shown us that when oppertunities have been presented of making their aversions appear how far they have carried it being always desirous that their particular Opinions might prevail over all others Therefore it is not any particular interest that I here endeavour to advance But it is the general interest of all Christian Societies It is the good and the union of all those who march under the Standard of the Cross I design to reunite together all the Christians of the East and West Greeks and Romans Catholicks and Protestants and all the divers Branches whereinto these latter are subdivided CHAP. II. The first Effect of this Division Disquiet of Mind and Trouble of Conscience WEre there no other Evil in this Division than the very Division it self and that deformity which it causes in Christian Societies Were there no other harm done by it than the disfiguring the Face of Christianity and the blemishing its beauty that renders it so considerable it would be so great a cause of grief as to oblige us to endeavour with all our power to remedy so great a mischief But besides all this this unhappy
happened and that which it reports to us as predictions of things to come FOllowing the distinction made in the foregoing Chapter of all the things which are proposed to us in the Holy Scripture We must first examine what it declares to us as truths which the true Believer ought to receive by Faith These are not all of a like nature and must also be carefully distinguished to take away likewise all cause of contention among Christians I believe therefore they may all be brought under these three Heads As first the Mysteries of Religion which ought to be believed for setting the Conscience at rest and procuring its Salvation Secondly the Historical Narrations which the Scripture makes us of many things that have happened as well in the Disposition of the Order of the Universe as in the Government of the Church under the Old and New Covenant Thirdly the predictions there made as of things which must happen and whereof we see not yet the accomplishment This being concluded we should generally recerve as unquestionable truths whatsoever God has revealed to us in his Word Wherein there are many things which should not neither can they give any matter of contention much less of Division As for Example the Historical Relations of the Holy Scriptures are such that all Christians generally receive â—â—â—m as certain and indubitable and if there be any diversity of Opimons upon any difficulties of Chronology That should not cause a separation in the Church The Opinions may be left to the Liberty of particular Persons to follow therein what they shall judge most probable I say the same of interpretations which may be given to some obscure passages which should not cause any Division be the diversity never so great which is there met with There is but one sole occasion for allowing it and that is when a particular interpretation overthrowes some one of the Fundamental Doctrines or that they would make it to pass as issued out from the very mouth of God himself For all these interpretations are but so many attempts of Man's wit which may fail Insomuch that we should leave to every one the liberty of examining them to receive them afterwards or to reject them without prejudice to Salvation and without breaking the Union which is had with those of contrary Opinions As to what concerns suture predictions neither ought these to be the subject of any Division It may suffice we are all in general perswaded that whatsoever has been foretold in the Holy Scriptures shall have its accomplishment notwithstanding all the obstacles which intersere 'T is sufficient to believe that the first Cause absolutely disposing of second causes will bring about its designs in despite of all resistance of the Creatures This hinders not from advancing our thoughts higher searching into the sense of the prophesie and making our conjectures of the times of its execution We should in this give Liberty to certain particular persons especially when these kinds of Meditations may contribute to the Consolation of true Believers and to excite them more to sanctity It is in this I make that happiness consist which the Book of the Apocalypse attributes to those who read it carefully and understand it But he who would apply himself to this study must not do it but with great precautions Here it is that much strictness must be observed and principally not the least stirring be made but from a principle of deep humility He must on all occasions distrust himself but more in this than any other For although these Oracles be not conceived in ambiguous termes as those of the Pagans were yet are they proposed in obscure and dark expressions They are such hidden mysteries and so profound that they can scarcely be faâ—…omed When predictions are accomplished they change their nature and become Histories easy to be understood But before the Event they must be looked upon with that profound respect as causes naturally a silence But yet if any think they have espy'd some light they may utter their thought with modesty And should rather propose it as a conjecture than as a certain Doctrine For truly there is nothing so dangerous nor so prejudicial to the peace of the Church as the desire of making pass our sence upon things foretold for constant truths There needs but a forc'd Opinion of these Prophesies to stir up a whole Nation to tumult to disturb the peace of States and ruine the Unity which should be amongst Christians The Examples of this are as well known as they are Dreadful to Consider There might some kind of Parallel be made between this Reflection and those dangerous obstinate Opinions wherof we have already made mention and which must be entirely cast away to attain to a perfect intelligence in Christianity CHAP. VI. Fifth Advice Touching the Mysteries of Christian Religion which we must believe as being Revealed in the Holy Scriptures and concerning the distinction which must be made of them AFter having considered methodically of what the Word of God teaches us touching the Rites Ceremonies and outward Order of the Church as also the Histories and Prophesies which it contains After having shown that in all these things there should be no matter of Contention among Christians I have nothing less to examine but what concerns the Rules comprehending the Holy Mysteries of Christianity which Believers should own and receive for their Salvation And because it is a most important matter it must be clearly open'd and explained to remove whatsoever might give any occasion of Contention and procure herein as well as in the rest a Reconciliation of all Christian Societies I cannot now absolutely disapprove the Distinction which all Doctors make in this matter and of which I have already spoken If I acknowledge there be in Religion some important Precepts essential fundamental and necessary to Salvation I acknowledg therein also others less important which might be let alone as where some Errour may slip in Yet this may be done without prejudicing our Salvation â—â—e Peace of Consciences and tranquility of the Church But what I cannot approve of in this is the Application which these Doctors make of this distinction to their Cause They commonly fall concerning this matter into the same faults which have been observed Namely their prejudicate Opinions and particular Interests which for the most part bear sway in the Judgment which they make of what is Fundamental and what is not So that they would oblige all who enter into their Communion to acquiesce in Humane Doctrines as if they were so many Fundamental Points They oblige Men also to Reject the Doctrines which agree not with theirs as if they tended to overthrow the Foundations of Religion although they may not be so prejudicial as they would make them believe For who has Authority of fixing that which is Fundamental and distinguishing it from that which is not If it were left to the disposition of Men every Society
lived there I know not upon what occasion the Jesuits having fallen into some great trouble The Ambassadours of England and Holland who otherwise are their mortal Enemies as he says were the first who spake in their favour and made their business be dispatched with all the good success which they could desire What hinders Us here in Europe in the middest of Christianity that we cannot do that by a motive of Charity which they in the Levant do by the Principle of the Interest of Trade and civil Affairs and that we drawing again one towards another should not agree at last in the Fundamental Points which may Unite Us altogether And although this Design should not be so readily brought to perfection Meditation would be very advantagious and very conducing to it Particular Persons who shall have tasted of it would draw much satisfaction from it They would be disabused as to many of their preconceived Opinions They would finde themselves discharged of a heavy Yoke They would unmask Christian Religion and discover its beauteousest Face as being most pure and most plain They would love it and dwell together in its profession with singular comfort I shall also add this same that if the Proposition should not succeed so happily for all Christians in general it might take effect in many particular States of Europe I mean amongst those Christians where there are diversities of Opinions and Professions Could we not at least in these places labour herein for some good accommodation And would not the Fruit which grows thence be capable of inviting others to take a share in it The Conclusion The Profits and Advantages which might be hoped for from this Design HE must be very dim-sighted who cannot plainly see the signal advantages which may be expected from so-excellent a Design It would be an admirable means for advancing the Glory of God to establish his Doctrine in the purity and simplicity which is natural to it Men have been desirous to supply by their prudence the defects which they thought they had observed in the conduct of providence They thought that God had not in His Word explained Himself neither clear enough nor amply enough to be understood without assistance Thence proceeded all these expositions Paraphrases Commentaries Questions and Disputes which have opprest almost choaked the most excellent and most holy Doctrine that ever appeared in the World If therefore we can but once rid her of this Burthen she will appear in all her luster again and establish in its ancient purity the service of Him who is manifested by Her Under the old Covenant God rejected the Worship which the most supersticious amongst the Jews offered him and that because they had modell'd it according to their fancies and had rather endeavoured the observance of these outward things than the solidity and essence of true Piety God refuses his Graces to those who have no mind to receive them meerly simple and pure as they are To mix them with ours is absolutely to spoil them And now seeing we are so unhappy at this present as not to enjoy the communication of the Graces of Heaven nor that blessed commerce which the first Christians had with God who doubts but that this must needs come from hence that we have quitted their simple and innocent carriage in Divine Service We have undertaken to serve Him after our manner and we have endeavoured to know Him only by such Ideas which our Caprichious fancies have fashion'd of Him This has properly been the cloud which has intercepted our sight of Him This certainly has been the Sin which being the most capital of all has made Him conceal Himself from us and the provocation which has obliged his Justice to chastize by the deprivement of his Graces those who have neglected the simplicity of his Doctrine We must therefore re-enter into that first estate of simplicity humility and charity to recover that which we have lost that is to say God and his Graces And this is what we should hope for from the execution of this Design The second advantage which we may expect is that we should find it much easier to extirpate Vice and to procure the Reformation of Manners in Society We are driven to a necessity of certain Disputes and strange Controversies whilst we should be rooting out the passions which choak the Fruit of the Doctrin of the Gospel We make sallies out upon the Enemy whilst Sedition molests us within Let us cast away these unprofitable Questions We have enough to do to make Answer to the Reproaches of our own Consciences We shall never think of reforming our manners whilst we spend the chiefest of our time in maintaining these impertinent Discourses We shall not be able to defend our selves from ill examples if we employ our Armes in vindicating of indifferent Opinions which cannot so long be debated Pro Con without prejudice to Salvation Especially since this diversity of Opinions destroys as it hath been proved both Charity which is the foundation of Christian vertues and humility which is the soul of them The fire of this Division must first be extinguished before we can proceed with success towards the Correction of Manners and Reformation of Life Therefore it is this that all good Christian Souls do sigh after We might have great reason to hope that the State would have also a considerable advantage by this design People would become more tractable and submit with more willingness to the Orders of their Governours when they should see themselves united with them in the same Profession It has been lways observed that mens Affections have never been straightly linked together where their Minds have been divivided by different Opinions Moreover all those subtilties which we cause to arise about Religion do ordinarily make peoples spirits inquisitive proud standing upon punctilio's obstinate and by consequence more difficult to be brought to Reason and their Obedience Every parcular man pretends to have a right of taking cognisance of those Controversal Matters to inrerpose his judgment therein and then with great vehemency ro defend them After this in Affairs of State they will take the same liberty which they gave themselves in those of Religion They believe that if it be permitted them to controll the Opinions of their Governours in the Church where the Service of God is it should likewise be free for them to examine the Conduct of those who are set over them in State Thus the Reunion which I propose will be a powerful means to hold every one in his Duty All Princes of Christendom would draw considerable advantages from this design besides the Obedience of their Subjects of which I have now been speaking They might strictly unite themselves together For these Jealousies these Distrusts and these Divisions which ordinaiily arise from diversiry of Professions coming absolutely to cease all these different Interests which separate them would unite in one and the Fruit would be common