Panthenosia: The Composition of All Dissensions

law of nature, the Jew who follows the Scripture, and the Christian who now follows the shadows of the law of grace more than the truth, differ in words, yet all seek one JESUS (though not the same one as they contend). Now, bound by this principle, what prevents us from being united? Perhaps impurity, or the disparity of sacraments or opinions. But it is first necessary to coalesce civilly, so that this difference may become openly known; and thus, from comparison and from a life and doctrine full of peace, it will at length come to pass that the members of salvation will slowly coalesce, and those who refuse to be united to the body will be dissipated by their own actions. Thus nature does its work assiduously by uniting its parts, never dissipating except in so far as it dilates itself in its own growth and expels useless parts in its excrement. By itself, however, this work of justice or work according to nature expels these parts, since it has its beginning in union: for the sake of which all fates are destined to die, so that with the spirits of the preceding life united, at length a new and multiplied life arises, which is called nature from birth. It does not certainly grieve me so much that I, in a comparison full of hatred between the Evangelists and the Koran, and in most places of other writers, particularly regarding the concord of the Earth, have—like justice—driven away many sons of God from Him by my words: because I see that it has been done by the just dispensation of God, in that justice now precedes mercy. For thus.