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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.
CHAP. VI.
The Unity of Christians is due to the Honour of Christ, and is pleasing and amiable to God.
The Vnity of Christians is due to the Honour of Christ, and is pleasing and amiable to God.
§. 1. IT is not only Miracles that are Christs witness in the world. The spirit of Prophecy also is called his witness, Rev. 19. 10. And if many Prophets should all say that they speak from Christ, and speak contrary things, and charge each other with falsehood and deceit, would this be to his honour or to the credit of their testimony? It is the great Concord of the prophecies, promises and types of the Old Testament with the history and doctrine of the New, and the great concord of all the writers of the New Testament among themselves, which greatly facilitateth our belief both of the Old and ⟨p. 72⟩New. And all Infidels who accuse the Scriptures of untruth, do accuse it also of contradictions: And if they could prove the later, they would prove the former.
§. 1. IT is not only Miracles that are Christs witness in the world. The spirit of Prophecie also is called his witness, Rev. 19. 10. And if many Prophets should all say that they speak from Christ, and speak contrary things, and charge each other with falshood and deceit, would this be to his honour or to the credit of their testimony? It is the great Concord of the prophecies, promises and types of the Old Testament with the history and doctrine of the New, and the great concord of all the writers of the New Testament among themselves, which greatly facilitateth our belief both of the Old and