ON THE REFORMATION
As there were many reformers, so likewise many reformations; every country proceeding in a particular way and method, according as their national interest, together with their constitution and clime inclined them; some angrily, and with extremity; others calmly, and with mediocrity, not rending, but easily dividing the community, and leaving an honest possibility of a reconciliation; which, though peaceable spirits do desire, and may conceive that revolution of time and the mercies of God may effect, yet that judgment that shall consider the present antipathies between the two extremes,
their contrarieties in condition, affection, and opinion, may with the same hopes expect a union in the poles of heaven.
It is the promise of Christ to make us all one flock; but how, and when this union shall be, is as obscure to me as the last day.