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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.
18. Yea, if once we were united in the Spirit, the very forethought of an Everlasting Union in Heaven, would have a continual influence upon our hearts, for the healing of our breaches. We should be thinking with our selves [Shall we not shortly be all of one mind and heart! and all be perfected with the blessed vision, and Reconciling Light of the face of God! There will then be no dissension or division, or unbrotherly censures, or separations. And should we now live so unlike our future life! Shall we now be so unlike to what we must be for ever! Shall we now cherish those heart-burnings and dissentions, that must not enter with us into Heaven, but be cast off among the rest of our miseries, and ⟨p. 274⟩shut out with the rest of our enemies, and hated for ever by God and us? Must we there be closed in perfect Love, and be all employed in the same holy Praise of God and our Redeemer; and does it beseem us now to be censuring, contending and separating from each other? Thus the belief of the Life to come, will be a more effectual means with the godly for Agreement, then any that unsanctified men can use.
18. Yea, if once we were united in the Spirit, the very forethought of an Everlasting Vnion in Heaven, would have a continual influence upon our hearts, for the healing of our breaches. We should be thinking with our selves [Shall we not shortly be all of one mind and heart! and all be perfected with the blessed vision, and Reconciling Light of the face of God! There will then be no dissention or division, or unbrotherly censures, or separations. And should we now live so unlike our future life! Shall we now be so unlike to what we must be for ever! Shall we now cherish those heart-burnings and dissentions, that must not enter with us into Heaven, but be cast off among the rest of our miseries, and ⟨p. 274⟩shut out with the rest of our enemies, and hated for ever by God and us? Must we there be closed in perfect Love, and be all imployed in the same holy Praise of God and our Redeemer; and does it beseem us now to be censuring, contending and separating from each other? Thus the belief of the Life to come, will be a more effectual means with the godly for Agreement, then any that unsanctified men can use.