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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.
Should they take the same course about their Language, and say, that it is not the language of Canaan but of the beast, if it grow common, and so take up with a new one, that it might be a narrow one, the folly of it would discover it self: And what is the excellency of a Language but significancy and extensive community? and what greater plague since Adams sin hath befallen mankind, than the division of tongues? as hindering communication, and propagation of the Gospel? And what greater blessing as a means to universal Reformation could be given men, than an universal common language? And what is the property of Babel but division and confusion of tongues? And doth not all this intimate the necessity of a Union of minds?
Should they take the same course about their Language, and say, that it is not the language of Canaan but of the beast, if it grow common, and so take up with a new one, that it might be a narrow one, the folly of it would discover it self: And what is the excellency of a Language but significancy and extensive community? and what greater plague since Adams sin hath befaln mankind, than the division of tongues? as hindering communication, and propagation of the Gospel? And what greater blessing as a means to universal Reformation could be given men, than an universal common language? And what is the property of Babel but division and confusion of tongues? And doth not all this intimate the necessity of a Union of minds?
While we keep in the Unity of the Body and spirit, we may, we must strive for such a singularity, as consisteth in an excellency of degree, and endeavour to be the best and holiest persons, and the usefullest members in the body of Christ. But if once you must separate from the body as too good to be members of so great or so bad a society, you perish.
While we keep in the Vnity of the Body and spirit, we may, we must strive for such a singularity, as consisteth in an excellency of degree, and endeavour to be the best and holiest persons, and the usefullest members in the body of Christ. But if once you must separate from the body as too good to be members of so great or so bad a society, you perish.