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Englands sickness, comparatively conferred with Israels Divided into two sermons, by ThoEnglands sicknes, comparatively conferred with Israels Diuided into two sermons, by Tho
Englands sickness, comparatively conferred with Israels Divided into two sermons, by Tho: Adams.Englands sicknes, comparatively conferred with Israels Diuided into two sermons, by Tho: Adams.
London: printed by E for John Budge, 1615London: printed by E for Iohn Budge, 1615
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Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
She is one, una unica, that is mother of us all. Though there be qthreescore Queens, and fourscore Concubines, and virgins without number: yet my dove my undefiled is but one, she is the only one of her mother, the choice one of her that bare her. There is one body, many members, 1. Cor. 12.2 The eye must not quarrel with the hand, nor the head with the foot, If we be one against another, let ⟨p. 7⟩us beware, least God be against all. We have one Lord, whose Livery is Love, 3John 15. (By this shall all men know that you are my Disciples, if ye have love one to another:) whose doctrine is peace, Ephes. 2. (He preached peace to you that were far off, and to them that were nigh:) Let us then serve him, professing one truth, with one heart. It is wretched, when sects vie number with Cities; and there are so many creeds as heads; Qui conantur vel corrumpere fidem, vel disrumpere charitatem, who strive either to corrupt faith or dissolve charity; none performing his function without faction. It is testified of those pure and primitive times, that rthe multitude of them that believed were of one heart, and of one soul. 5One mind in many bodies? Behold how good and pleasant a thing it is for brethren to dwell together in unity, saith the Psalmist, when inter multa corpora, non multa corda, as August-sweetly; when among divers men there are not divers minds: Sic viventes in unum, ut unum bominem faciant, so loving and living together in one, that they all make but (as it were) one man.
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