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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.
1. You know sure that there can be no Christian Unity, but in God as your Father, and the Centre of Unity: All the true members of the Catholic Church must say [Our Father] and be as his children United in him. If you will have Unity without the favour of God, it must be the Unity of Rebels, and such a concord as is in Hell: The family of God do all Unite in him: As all the Kingdom is United in one King; so is all the Church in God. Can you think it possible to have Unity, as long as ⟨p. 21⟩you will not Unite in God? Well then; there's nothing plainer in the Scripture, then that all men by nature are departed from God, and none are United to him but those that are regenerate and made new creatures, not a man is his child by Grace, and in his favour, but only those that are sanctified by his Spirit, Joh. 3.3, 5. Mat. 18.3. 2 Cor. 5.17. Heb. 12.14. So that there's no true Unity without Sanctification, because there's no reconciliation with God, nor Unity with him, without it.
1. You know sure that there can be no Christian Unity, but in God as your Father, and the Center of Vnity: All the true members of the Catholick Church must say [Our Father] and be as his children United in him. If you will have Unity without the favour of God, it must be the Unity of Rebels, and such a concord as is in Hell: The family of God do all Unite in him: As all the Kingdom is United in one King; so is all the Church in God. Can you think it possible to have Unity, as long as ⟨p. 21⟩you will not Unite in God? Well then; there's nothing plainer in the Scripture, then that all men by nature are departed from God, and none are United to him but those that are regenerate and made new creatures, not a man is his child by Grace, and in his favour, but only those that are sanctified by his Spirit, Ioh. 3.3, 5