Thus superstitionists

                            Grunt and groan,
          Cursing all systems but their own.

Agreeing in little else save disagreement, the ‘main point’ of this class of believers is a matter of little consequence to that class of believers, and no matter at all to a third class of believers.  Look at the thousand-and-one sects into which the Christian world is divided.  ’Some reject Scripture; others admit no other writings but Scripture.  Some say the Devils shall be saved, others that they shall be damned; others that there are no Devils at all.  Some hold that it is lawful to dissemble in religion, others the contrary.  Some say that Antichrist is come, some say not; others that he is a particular man, others that he is not a man, but the Devil; and others that by Antichrist is meant a succession of men.  Some will have him to be Nero, some Caligula, some Mohammed, some the Pope, some Luther, some the Turk, some of the Tribe of Dan; and so each man according to his fancy will make an Antichrist.  Some only will observe the Lord’s day, some only the Sabbath; some both, and some neither.  Some will have all things in common, some not.  Some will have Christ’s body only in Heaven, some everywhere; some in the bread, others with the bread, others about the bread, others under the bread, and others that Christ’s body is the bread, or the bread his body.  And others that his body is transformed into his divinity.  Some will have the Eucharist administered in both kinds, some in one, some not at all.  Some will have Christ descend to hell in respect of his soul, some only in his power, some in his divinity, some in his body, some not at all.  Some by hell understand the place of the damned, some limbus patrum, others the wrath of God, others the grave.  Some will make Christ two persons, some give him but one nature and one will; some affirming him to be only God, some only man, some made up of both, some altogether deny him.  Some will have his body come from Heaven, some from the Virgin, some from the elements.  Some will have our souls mortal, some immortal; some bring them into the body by Infusion, some by traduction.  Some will have souls created before the world, some after; some will have them created altogether, others severally; some will have them corporeal, some incorporeal; some of the substance of God, some of the substance of the body.  So infinitely are men’s conceits distracted with a variety of opinions, whereas there is but one Truth, which every man aims at, but few attain it; every man thinks he hath it, and yet few enjoy it.’ [20:1]

Chiefs of these sects are, for the most part, ridiculously intolerant; so many small Popes, who fancy that whomsoever they bind on earth shall be bound in Heaven; and whomsoever they loose on earth shall be loosed in Heaven.  They remorselessly cobble the true faith, without which, to their ‘sole exclusive Heaven,’ none can be admitted.