ABSTRACT
The Cause of God and his people never needed more help from Heaven, nor more fervent prayers from earth, to be put to the God of heaven, for then [illeg.] of it, then at this time. The best of the Saints have flesh as well as Spirit, they have something of the Old Man, as well as of the New; they know but in part, and are Sanctified but in part: and hence many weaknesses in managing the cause of God. There is a mixture of Hypocrites amongst the sincere Servants of God, who pretend unto this cause as well as they; and hence many times not onely weakness but wickedness is inter-woven into the fairest pretences to the cause of God. First peaceable from Schisme in the Church, and sedition in the Common-Wealth, or whatsoever tends unto faction, studying to be quiet, and then faithfull to the cause of Religion according to our duty to God.
