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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.
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, ⟨p. 29⟩doth show a large degree of charity, and of the Unity of the spirit, which would fain bring in all men to the bond of the same Unity, and participation of the same spirit.
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, ⟨p. 29⟩doth shew a large degree of charity, and of the Vnity of the spirit, which would fain bring in all men to the bond of the same Unity, and participation of the same spirit.
- *Such as now worketh in Mr. Eliats in New England, and Mr. Thomas Gouge in England towards the Welsh, & in many worthy Ministers who suffer the reproach and persecutions of men because they will not consent to be as lights put under a bushel.
66. The most public endeavours therefore of the good of many, of Churches, of Kingdoms, of mankind, are the most noble and most beseeming Christianity, though it's possible that an hypocrite may attempt the like, to get a name, or for other carnal ends.
66. The most publick endeavours therefore of the good of many, of Churches, of Kingdoms, of mankind, are the most noble and most beseeming Christianity, though it's possible that an hypocrite may attempt the like, to get a name, or for other carnal ends.