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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.
5. There is no Unity to be had, but in the Gospel. The Apostle tells us, there is One Faith, Eph. 4.5. If an Angel from heaven would preach another Gospel, he must be accursed, Gal. 1.10, 11. But the unsanctified do not truly and heartily entertain this Gospel. You think and say you truly believe it, when you do not. If you truly ⟨p. 28⟩believed it, your lives would show it. He that indeed believes an everlasting Glory, will sure look after it, more then after the world or the flesh.
5. There is no Vnity to be had, but in the Gospel. The Apostle tels us, there is One Faith, Eph. 4.5. If an Angel from heaven would preach another Gospel, he must be accursed, Gal. 1.10, 11. But the unsanctified do not truly and heartily entertain this Gospel. You think and say you truly believe it, when you do not. If you truly ⟨p. 28⟩believed it, your lives would shew it. He that indeed believes an everlasting Glory, will sure look after it, more then after the world or the flesh.
6. There is no Christian Unity but in the Christian Nature. Contrary natures cannot close. Fir• and Water, the Woolf and the Lamb, the Bear and the Dog, wi• not well Unite. The sanctified hav• a new, divine and heavenly nature Joh. 3.6