This darkness could not sever the true church from her Head; yet it
has eclipsed the glory of things. By two lights a man cannot see
this or that thing so exactly as by one single light; no, they both
make all confused, though they make not all invisible. As for
instance, sunlight and moonlight together, firelight and sunlight
together, candlelight and moonlight together, make things more
obscure than to look on them by a single light. The word reflecting
upon the understanding without the interposing of man's traditions,
makes the mind of God to a man more clear than when attended with
the other.
Things therefore will never be well in the church of God so long as
there is thus light against light therein. When there is but one
Lord among us, and his name one; and when divisions, by the consent
of the whole, are banished--I mean, not persecuted, but abandoned in
all by a joint consent, and when every man shall submit his own
single opinion to those truths that by their being retained are for
the health of all--then look for good days, and not till then.
CONFLICT BETWEEN THE CHURCH AND ANTICHRIST.
They that are the church do in God's light see light but they that
are not, do in their own way see. And let a man and a beast look out
at the same window, the same door, the same casement, yet the one
will see like a man, and the other but like a beast.
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