Panthenosia: The Composition of All Dissensions

the fourth Gospel, and in the Epistles and the Apocalypse, in which he censured the pleasure-seeking heretics of his century only by allusion and by name alone. Nor, however, is the labor of justice to be disapproved. For just as mercy unites, so justice ought, as long as it flourishes here, to dissipate. But after God has permitted this great vicissitude of a thousand and two hundred or so years of dissipation between the members of the special and common church, it is necessarily required that we return anew to that union of all members, which rejects no one and blesses all who are willing into eternity.

THAT BY NO OTHER METHOD

can human diligence be achieved, than that all

first be united civilly together, than absolutely

Since the entire human race, even though immersed in the deepest darkness, agrees on the one article of seeking salvation and the highest good, it is impossible but that they already agree in this beginning and end of all things, however much they may be removed by the difference of religion or persuasion. Therefore, whatever there may be that is said by the name of salvation, even if a rude man seeks this from the trunk of divine nature, the human race cannot—the difference of words and false objects being removed—fail to agree with all of nature, which is groaning and in labor, that in the language of the first parent all seek Iesuah salvation, that is, Iesum Jesus. Although therefore the Ismaelites descendants of Ishmael who follow the.