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Catholic unity, or, The only way to bring us all to be of one…Catholick vnity, or, The only way to bring us all to be of one…
Catholic unity, or, The only way to bring us all to be of one religion by Rich. Baxter.Catholick vnity, or, The only way to bring us all to be of one religion by Rich. Baxter.
London: printed by R. W. for Thomas Underhill and Francis Tyton, 1660
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.
2. Moreover if we Agree, it must be on terms of wisdom and honesty. A dishonest Agreement is not to be desired, but abhorred. For you to leave your ungodliness, and turn to the Love and Fear of God, is an honest course of Agreement; for it is but to have dishonesty it sel• and become honest. I hope none of you dare charge the way of God and godliness with any dishonesty: God calls you to nothing but what is holy, and just, and good: and therefore Honesty requireth you to yield.
2. Moreover if we Agree, it must be on terms of wisdom and honesty. A dish•n•st Agreement is not to be desired, but abhorred. For you to l•ave your ungodliness, and turn to the Love and Fear of God, is an honest cours• of Agreement; for it is but to have dishonesty it sel• and become honest. I hope none of you dare charge the way of God and godliness with any dishonesty: God calls you to nothing but what is holy, and just, and good: and therefore Honesty requireth you to yield.
But for the sanctified […] unsanctified; for the […] become ungodly, to be one […] you, this were the b•s•st dish••• sty in the world. We know your way to be of the Devil and […] flesh; and is it honest then to join with you in it? We have •yed too long already in the d••es o• our ignorance, and have found it dishonest and deceitful: and would you have us go against our own experience? We were once in the way that you are in, and were forced to renounce it, or else we had been undone body and soul for ever; and should we ck up the vomit which we were forced to cast out? we were once Agreed with you, and God constrained us to break that Agreement: and shall we renew it again? Alas, your way hath cost us dear; Many a bitter repenting day, and many a sad thought, to the breaking of