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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.
EXCEPT. ib. Since the crying sin this1 day is not separation, but unjust and violent Persecution, (½) which Mr. Baxter speak•eth very little against.
- 12. Untruth.
Answ. 1. A Las, dear Brother, that after so many years silencing and affliction, after flames and Plagues, and dreadful judgments, after twenty years practice of the sin it self, and when we are buried in the very ruins which it caused, we ⟨p. 7⟩should not yet know that our own uncharitable Divisions, Alienations, and Separations, are a crying sin? Yea the crying sin; […] well as the uncharitableness and hurtfulness of others? Alas, will God leave us also, even us to the obdurateness of Pharaoh? Doth not judgment begin with us? Is there not crying sin with us? what have we done to Christs Kingdom, to this Kingdoms▪ to our friends (dead and alive) to our selves, and (alas) to our enemies, by our Divisions? And do we not feel it? Do we not know it? Is it yet to us, even to us, a crime intolerable to call us to Repentance? Woe to us! Into what hard-heartedness have we sinned our selves! Yea that we should continue in the sin, and passionately defend it! When will God give us Repentance unto life?
Answ. 1. A Las, dear Brother, that after so many years silencing and affliction, after flames and Plagues, and dreadful judgments, after twenty years practice of the sin it self, and when we are buried in the very ruines which it caused, we ⟨p. 7⟩should not yet know that our own uncharitable Divisions, Alienations, and Separations, are a crying sin? Yea the crying sin; 〈…〉 well as the uncharitableness and hurtfulness of others? Alas, will God leave us also, even us to the obdurateness of Pharaoh? Doth not judgment begin with us? Is there not crying sin with us? what have we done to Christs Kingdome, to this Kingdoms to our friends (dead and alive) to our selves, and (alas) to our enemies, by our Divisions? And do we not feel it? Do we not know it? Is it yet to us, even to us, a crime intolerable to call us to Repentance? Wo to us! Into what hard-heartedness have we sinned our selves! Yea that we should continue in the sin, and passionately defend it! When will God give us Repentance unto life?