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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.
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.
53. The Vnity 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.
54. Therefore holy experienced Christians who have most of the Unity of the spirit, are most against the dividing impositions of Church Tyrants, and also against the quarrelsome humour and causeless separations of self conceited Singularists whether Dogmatical or superstitious; who proudly overvalue their own conceptions, forms and modes of worship and doctrine, and thence aggravate all that they dislike into the ⟨p. 26⟩shape of Idolatry, Antichristianism, false worship, or some such heinous sin, when the beam of self-conceit and pride in their own eye, is worse than the moe of a modal imperfection of words, method or matter, in another's eye.