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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.
to show them that all this must stand with unity, and that yet there must be no Schism in the body, but the members must have the same care one of another, v. 25. yea the less comely parts must have the more care, v. 23, 24.
to shew them that all this must stand with unity, and that yet there must be no Schism in the body, but the members must have the same care one of another, v. 25. yea the less comely parts must have the more care, v. 23, 24.
And ch. 15. 1, 2, 3. he giveth us this sum of the Gospel which he preached [Moreover brethren I declare to you the Gospel which I preached, which also you have received, and wherein ye stand, by which also ye are saved if ye hold fast what I preached, to you, unless you believed in vain: (Are not here the terms of Christian unity and salvation?) For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ dyed for our sins, according to the Scriptures, and that he was buried and rose again the third day according to the Scriptures, and was seen, &c. whence our resurrection is proved. Here is nothing but the common articles of the Creed; and this was the Gospel.
Indeed St. Paul is an Anathematizer too, but it is not of men that differ about words or humane forms, but of all them that love not the Lord Jesus Christ, 1 Cor. 16. 22.