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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.
8. And what a world of precious Time will be wasted by this means, while men are Studying and Reading to maintain their own opinions; ⟨p. 333⟩and when they must waste their hours when they are together, in Conferences and wrangling-Disputations, to the discomposing of their own and others minds, and certain troubling the Church of God! Oh what use have we for those precious hours, for surer, greater, and more needful things?
9. The things that our salvation and the Churches Peace are indeed laid upon, are so great, so necessary, so pleasant, and so profitable, that it leaveth us the more without excuse, to waste our time in things unnecessary. We have our great Creator to know and honour: we have the mystery of Redemption to search into and admire: we have the Nature, and Life, and Death, and Resurrection, and Ascension, and Glorification, and Intercession of Christ to study and believe; and all the Love and Wisdom of God, the ⟨p. 334⟩Mercy, and the Holiness, and Justice that was revealed in him: we have Judgment to prepare for; & all the Graces of the Spirit of Christ to be received, or cherished, increased and exercised in our Souls. We have a Hell to scape, and a Heaven to obtain, and the foreseen glory of it to feed upon, for the strengthening and delighting of our Souls: we have many particular duties of Holiness and Righteousness to attend: And in the midst of all this great employment, should we make more work and trouble to our selves, and that about unnecessary things?
9. The things that our salvation and the Churches Peace are indeed laid upon, are so great, so necessary, so pleasant, and so profitable, that it leaveth us the more without excuse, to waste our time in things unnecessary. We have our great Creator to know and honour: we have the mysterie of Redemption to search into and admire: we have the Nature, and Life, and Death, and Resurrection, and Ascension, and Glorification, and Intercession of Christ to study and believe; and all the Love and Wisdom of God, the