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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.
58. This Love and Unity of the spirit, will prevail with the sincere, to prosecute it through difficulties and oppositions, and to conquer all: And it teacheth them at the first hearing to abhor back-biters, and slanderous censurers, who on pretence of a (blind) zeal for Orthodoxness or Piety or Purity of worship, are ready to reproach those that are not of their mind and way in points where difference is tolerable: And when children that are tossed up and down and carried to and fro, (Eph. 4. 14.) with every wind of doctrine, are presently filled with distaste ⟨p. 27⟩and prejudice, when they hear other mens tolerable opinions, forms and orders aggravated, the right Christian is more affected with displeasure against the self-conceited reproacher, who is employed by Satan (though perhaps he be a child of God) against the Love and Unity of believers.
58. This Love and Vnity of the spirit, will prevail with the sincere, to prosecute it through difficulties and oppositions, and to conquer all: And it teacheth them at the first hearing to abhor back-biters, and slanderous censurers, who on pretence of a (blind) zeal for Orthodoxness or Piety or Purity of worship, are ready to reproach those that are not of their mind and way in points where difference is tolerable: And when children that are tost up and down and carried to and fro, (Eph. 4. 14.) with every wind of doctrine, are presently filled with distast ⟨p. 27⟩and prejudice, when they hear other mens tolerable opinions, forms and orders aggravated, the right Christian is more affected with displeasure against the self-conceited reproacher, who is employed by Satan (though perhaps he be a child of God) against the Love and Vnity of believers.
59. The more any man hath of Love and Unity of the Spirit, the greater matter he maketh of Universal Unity, and the more Zealous he is for it. A small fire or Candle giveth but a faint and little light and heat, and that but a little way. But the Sun light and heat extendeth to all the surface of the earth, and much farther; and that so vigorously as to be the life of the things that live on earth: so strong love is extensive.