Such examples, therefore, brethren, it is right that we should follow ; '^ since it is written, " Cleave to the holy, for those that cleave to them shall [themselves] be made holy." "^ And again, in another place, [the Scripture] saith, " With a harmless man thou shalt prove '5 thy- self harmless, and with an elect man thou shalt be elect, and with a perverse man thou shalt show '^ thyself perverse." '^ Let us cleave, there- fore, to the innocent and righteous, since these are the elect of God. Why are there strifes, and tumults, and divisions, and schisms, and wars '^ among you ? Have we not [all] one God and one Christ? Is there not one Spirit of grace poured out upon us? And have we not one calling in Christ ? '^ Why do we divide and tear to pieces the members of Christ, and raise up strife against our own body, and have reached such a height of madness as to forget that " we are members one of another? "^° Remember the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, how^' He said, " Woe to that man [by whom ^' offences come] ! It were better for him that he had never been born, than that he should cast a stumbling-block before one of my elect. Yea, it were better for him that a millstone should be