The cure of church-divisions, or, Directions for weak Christians to keep them from being…

And he that will promote Love by sna•ling and barking at all that are strangers to him, and not of his own house, shall at last partake of the fruits of such Love as he promoted: And he may as wisely hope at last to bring the Church to Peace also, by worrying it, by splenetic censures and divisions, in despite of the experience of our present age, and of all the world. What ever is done against LOVE is done against Holiness and against God, and against ⟨p. 401⟩the Life of the Church: And therefore if any Love-killer do call himself, a servant of Christ and a friend to Holiness or to the Church, he must first prove that murdering it is an act of friendship, and a service acceptable to Christ: One would think by their practise, that some men took Abraham's trial for their Law, and accounted it the work of justifying faith, to kill the Church, and offer it up in sacrifice to Christ: But before they bring us to believe that such a sacrifice is acceptable to him, who offered himself a sacrifice for the Church, and who calleth for a living acceptable sacrifice, Rom. 12. 1. They have need to make a better proof of their authority, than Kelley did of his Revelation, when he brought Doctor Dee to consent to adultery by the same pretended warrant: God who is Love accepteth not such a sacrifice at the hands of Love-killers and Church-destroyers.

And he that will promote Love by sna•ling and barking at all that are strangers to him, and not of his own house, shall at last partake of the fruits of such Love as he promoted: And he may as wisely hope at last to bring the Church to Peace also, by werrying it, by splenetick censures and divisions, in despight of the experience of our present age, and of all the world. What ever is done against LOVE is done against Holiness and against God, and against ⟨p. 401⟩the Life of the Church: And therefore if any Love-killer do call himself, a servant of Christ and a friend to Holiness or to the Church, he must first prove that murdering it is an act of friendship, and a service acceptable to Christ: One would think by their practise, that some men took Abrahams trial for their Law, and accounted it the work of justifying faith, to kill the Church, and offer it up in sacrifice to Christ: But before they bring us to believe that such a sacrifice is acceptable to him, who offered himself a sacrifice for the Church, and who calleth for a living acceptable sacrifice,