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The true and only way of concord of all the Christian churches the desirableness…
The true and only way of concord of all the Christian churches the desirableness of it, and the detection of false dividing terms / opened by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for John Hancock, 1680
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.
51. Sincere and genuine Love and Unity hath an Universal care of all mankind, and is very apt to enquire and take knowledge how it goeth with all the world, and specially with all the Churches: For none can much love and desire that which they mind not, or take no thought of. And this is the chief News which a true Christian enquireth after, whether Gods name be hallowed, his Kingdom come, and his will be done on Earth, as it is done in heaven: And of this he is solicitous even on his death-bed.
51. Sincere and genuine Love and Vnity hath an Universal care of all mankind, and is very apt to enquire and take knowledge how it goeth with all the world, and specially with all the Churches: For none can much love and desire that which they mind not, or take no thought of. And this is the chief News which a true Christian enquireth after, whether Gods name be hallowed, his Kingdom come, and his will be done on Earth, as it is done in heaven: And of this he is sollicitous even on his death-bed.
52. The Unity of the spirit inclineth men to mourn much for the sects, Schisms, divisions and discords of believers; and to smart in the sense of them, as the body does by its wounds. And they that bewail them not, are so far void of the Unity of the spirit.
52. The Vnity of the spirit inclineth men to mourn much for the sects, Schisms, divisions and discords of believers; and to smart in the sense of them, as the body does by its wounds. And they that bewail them not, are so far void of the Vnity of the spirit.
53. The Unity of the spirit helpeth a man greatly to distinguish between wounding and healing Doctrines, wounding and healing courses of practice, and between wounding and healing persons, even as Nature teacheth us to discern and abhor that which would dismember or divide the body, as painful and destructive.