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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.
15. Moreover, were we once United in the Spirit, We should be under the Promise of Divine assistance, which the unsanctified have no part in. When we Pray for Light and Peace and Concord, we have a promise to be heard and helped, at least, in the time and measure as shall be fittest; we have a promise of the Spirit to be our Teacher, and to lead us into Truth: We have promises for the maintaining and repairing of our healing Graces, ⟨p. 271⟩and our Communion-Graces; our Love to Christ and one another; our Patience and Meekness and the rest. And this must needs be a great advantage to Unity and Agreement. For God is partly engaged for it.
15. Moreover, were we once United in the Spirit, We should be under the Promise of Divine assistance, which the unsanctified have no part in. When we Pray for Light and Peace and Concord, we have a promise to be heard and helpt, at least, in the time and measure as shall be fittest; we have a promise of the Spirit to be our Teacher, and to lead us into Truth: We have promises for the maintaining and repairing of our healing Graces, ⟨p. 271⟩and our Communion-Graces; our Love to Christ and one another; our Patience and Meekness and the rest. Aud this must needs be a great advantage to Unity and Agreement. For God is partly engaged for it.
16. And if we were United in the Spirit and Agreed in the main, The Great Truths which we are agreed in would very much direct us, to find out the rest which yet we differ in. For these have an influence into all the rest; and the rest are all connext to these, and also linked and knit together, that we may find out many by the help of one. All holy Truths do befriend each other; but especially the Great and Master points which the rest depend upon, and flow from: There is no way to a right Agreement in other points, but by agreeing first in these Fundamental Rudiments.