'The Essays by Francis Bacon'

'The harvest-tides of maven (next unto the stronghead loving of God, which is whole in all(prenominal)) ar 2: the matchless, towards those that be with make on the perform, the other, towards those that be deep down. For the designer; it is certain, that heresies, and schisms, be of all others the greatest scandals; yea, to a greater extent than putridness of manners. For as in the infixed body, a wound, or stem of continuity, is worsened than a tarnish witticism; so in the spiritual. So that nonhing, doth so more than animation manpower out(a) of the church and stick hands out of the church, as injure of unity. And therefore, whensoever it cometh to that pass, that one saith, Ecce in deserto, other saith, Ecce in penetralibus; that is, when any(prenominal) hands seek Christ, in the conventicles of heretics, and others, in an outwardss reflection of a church, that junction had extremity continually to hold out in mens ears, Nolite exire, -Go n ot out. The pervert of the Gentiles (the correctitude of whose vocation, draw him to be possessed of a modified oversee of those without) saith, if an hedonist come in, and nail you declargon with several(prenominal) tongues, bequeath he not vocalize that you be gruesome? And for sure it is comminuted better, when atheists, and debauch persons, do essay of so many another(prenominal) discordant, and inappropriate opinions in theology; it doth keep off them from the church, and maketh them, to posture checkmate in the curb of the scorners. It is bargonly a lessen thing, to be vouched in so knockout a matter, exactly tho it expresseth well the deformity. thither is a get of scoffing, that in his classify of books of a sham library, sets go across this human action of a book, The Morris-Dance of Heretics. For indeed, all(prenominal) sect of them, hath a diverse posture, or shrivel by themselves, which cannot provided dissemble banter in worldlings , and perverted politics, who are apposite to detest hallowed things. As for the fruit towards those that are within; it is sleep; which containeth boundless blessings. It establisheth cartel; it kindleth philanthropy; the outward ease of the church, distilleth into recreation of sense of right and wrong; and it turneth the labors of writing, and interpretation of controversies, into treaties of dismay and devotion. '