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A defence of the principles of love, which are necessary to the unity and…
A defence of the principles of love, which are necessary to the unity and concord of Christians and are delivered in a book called The cure of church-divisions ... / by Richard Baxter ...
London: printed for Nevil Simmons, 1671
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.
This is my judgement; This is the sum of all that I plead for, as to Communion. If the Excepter deny not this, he talketh not at all to me.
This is my judgement; This is the summ of all that I plead for, as to Communion. If the Excepter deny not this, he talketh not at all to me.
If any that have passionately reviled my Book and me, do say, We thought you had gone further, and pleaded for more: I answer them, that we should not speak untruths, and revile things before we understand them, and then come off with [I thought you had said more.] It is this with other Love-killing distempers that I strive to Cure.
And again I tell you, that it is, 1. Ignorance: 2. Pride, or overvaluing our own understandings:
3. And Uncharitableness generated of these two, which is the Cause of our CRUELTIES and our unlawful SEPARATIONS, and which breed and feed our threatening Divisions, among the parties on both extremes. And its the death of these three that must be our Cure.