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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.
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 mo•e of a modal imperfection of words, method or matter, in another's eye.
54. Therefore holy experienced Christians who have most of the Vnity of the spirit, are most against the dividing impositions of Church Tyrants, and also against the quarrelsom 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 hainous sin, when the beam of self-conceit and pride in their own eye, is worse than the mo•e of a modall imperfection of words, method or matter, in anothers eye.
55. The Unity of the spirit inclineth men to hope the best of others,1 till we know it to be untrue: and to take more notice of mens virtues than of their faults, and love covereth such infirmities as may be covered; & beareth with one another's burdens, while we consider that we also may be tempted.
55. The Vnity of the spirit inclineth men to hope the best of others,