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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
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63. Yet as every Christian hath so much concord and peace at home as is necessary to his salvation, so we may well hope that by just endeavours, the Churches may have so much, as may preserve the essentials of Christianity and Communion, and also may fortify the Integrals, and may much increase the greatness and glory of the Church, and much further holiness and righteousness in its members, and remove many of the scandals and sinful contentions, which are the great hinderers of piety, and are Satan's advantages against mans recovery and salvation: This much we may seek in hope.
63. Yet as every Christian hath so much concord and peace at home as is necessary to his salvation, so we may well hope that by just endeavours, the Churches may have so much, as may preserve the essentials of Christianity and Communion, and also may fortifie the Integrals, and may much encrease the greatness and glory of the Church, and much further holiness and righteousness in its members, and remove many of the scandals and sinful contentions, which are the great hinderers of piety, and are Satans advantages against mans recovery and salvation: This much we may seek in hope.
64. Despair of success is a an enemy to all pacificatory endeavours, and low and narrow designs show a low Spirit, and a little degree of holy love and all other uniting grace.
64. Despair of success is a an enemy to all pacificatory endeavours, and low and narrow designs shew a low Spirit, and a little degree of holy love and all other uniting grace.
65. An earnest desire* of the worlds Conversion, and of the bringing in the barbarous, ignorant, infidels and impious, to the knowledge of Christ, and a holy life,