Essay

 1        3|                        OF UNITY IN RELIGION~Religion being the chief
 2        3|               OF UNITY IN RELIGION~Religion being the chief band of
 3        3|      quarrels, and divisions about religion, were evils unknown to the
 4        3|            reason was, because the religion of the heathen, consisted
 5        3|         therefore, his worship and religion, will endure no mixture,
 6        3|           and contrary opinions in religion; it doth avert them from
 7        3|          may accommodate points of religion, by middle way, and taking
 8        3|    fundamental and of substance in religion, were truly discerned and
 9        3|       place, in the maintenance of religion. But we may not take up
10        3|          it; that is, to propagate religion by wars, or by sanguinary
11        3|         circumspection in cases of religion; so it is a thing monstrous,
12        3|       better, to make the cause of religion to descend, to the cruel
13        3|      Surely in counsels concerning religion, that counsel of the apostle
14       12|         goodness, as the Christian religion doth. Therefore, to avoid
15       13| notwithstanding their diversity of religion, and of cantons. For utility
16       14|             or weakened (which are religion, justice, counsel, and treasure),
17       14|       seditions are, innovation in religion; taxes; alteration of laws
18       15|      bringeth men’s minds about to religion. For while the mind of man
19       15|      atheism doth most demonstrate religion; that is, the school of
20       15|         all that impugn a received religion, or superstition, are by
21       15|          atheism are: divisions in religion, if they be many; for any
22       15|            deface the reverence of religion. And lastly, learned times,
23       15|            more bow men’s minds to religion. They that deny a God, destroy
24       16|       outward moral virtue, though religion were not; but superstition
25       16|      similitude of superstition to religion, makes it the more deformed.
26       18|           meddle with the point of religion, or their customs, or means
27       31|        privileged from it; namely, religion, matters of state, great
28       57|         men’s minds most. The true religion is built upon the rock;
29       57|        great revolutions.~When the religion formerly received, is rent
30       57|      holiness of the professors of religion, is decayed and full of
31       58|         men’s minds most. The true religion is built upon the rock;
32       58|        great revolutions.~When the religion formerly received, is rent
33       58|      holiness of the professors of religion, is decayed and full of