A26897:65
Church concord
Church concord containing I. a dissuasive from unnecessary division and separation, and the real concord of the moderate independents with the Presbyterians, instanced in ten seeming differences, II. by Richard Baxter.Church concord containing I. a disswasive from unnecessary division and separation, and the real concord of the moderate independents with the Presbyterians, instanced in ten seeming differences, II. by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for Tho. Parkhurst, 1691
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And also when it's known that it was men of your Principles and Tempers that caused our former Confusions, and pulled down after the King, the Parliaments of all sorts, the Protector and one another, till they set up their Quarters over the Gates, and plucked up the Floodgates that have these Thirty years overwhelmed us, and hazarded all the Reformation: Is there after all this any excuse for Dividers, or any pretence to extenuate their Sin? A Sin that hath cost England, Holland, Germany, Poland, and many other Nations dear. Yea, a Sin that tore the very Apostolic Churches, and grieved the hearts of the Apostles, and caused them to record their vehement obtestations against it. [If there be any consolation in Christ, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels ⟨image 7⟩and mercies, fulfil ye my joy, that ye be like minded, having the same love, being of one accord and of one mind: Let nothing be done through strife or vain-glory, but in lowliness of mind let each esteem others better than themselves: Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others.]
And also when it's known that it was men of your Principles and Tempers that caused our former Confusions, and pull'd down after the King, the Parliaments of all sorts, the Protector and one another, till they set up their Quarters over the Gates, and pluckt up the Floodgates that have these Thirty years overwhelmed us, and hazarded all the Reformation: Is there after all this any excuse for Dividers, or any pretence to extenuate their Sin? A Sin that hath cost England, Holland, Germany, Poland, and many other Nations dear. Yea, a Sin that tore the very Apostolick Churches, and grieved the hearts of the Apostles, and caused them to record their vehement obtestations against it. [If there be any consolation in Christ, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels ⟨image 7⟩and mercies, fulfil ye my joy, that ye be like minded, having the same love, being of one accord and of one mind: Let nothing be done through strife or vain-glory, but in lowliness of mind let each esteem others better than themselves: Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others.]