Thesis 3

3. THESIS.

God both foretels and promises in his word, and that more particularly of the days of the Gospel, to give one heart and one way to his people; and as there shall be one Lord, so his name shall be one, and that they shall all call upon the name of the Lord, to serve him with one consent (Jeremiah 32:39, Ezekiel 11:19, Zephaniah 3:9, Zechariah 14:9). Christ prays earnestly to his Father for believers that they all may be one and that they may be perfect in one (John 17:21, 22, 23). And there are many exhortations to Christians to be of one mind, and of the same mind in the Lord, to be of one accord, of one mind, all to speak the same thing, that there be no schisms among them, but that they be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment, and that they keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace (2 Corinthians 13:11, Philippians 2:2, Philippians 4:2, 1 Corinthians 1:10, Ephesians 4:3). Now what God has promised and foretold, what Christ has prayed for in a special manner, what the Apostles in their Epistles have so pathetically entreated and exhorted to, that Christians should especially labor after, and all the means tending thereunto; which the desiring and granting of a toleration of all ways, or many ways, must needs be contrary to.