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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.
If Paul found it necessary to cry down division, and plead for Unity so frequently and so vehemently as he doth, to those new planted Churches of Rome, Corinth, Ephesus, Galatia, Philippi, Thessalonica, &c. which had been founded by the means of miracles, and had so much of the spirit of Unity and Community, and had Apostles among them to preserve their peace: what wonder if we that are much ignorant of the Apostles minds, and of the Primitive pattern, and have less of the Spirit, have need to be still called upon to study to keep the ⟨p. 3⟩Unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace? They that preach Twenty or an hundred Sermons for Purity, and scarce one with equal Zeal for Unity and Peace, do not sufficiently discern that Purity and Peace are the inseparable fruits of the wisdom from above, 1which live and die together, and with them the souls and societies of believers.
If Paul found it necessary to cry down division, and plead for Unity so frequently and so vehemently as he doth, to those new planted Churches of Rome, Corinth, Ephesus, Galatia, Philippi, Thessalonica, &c. which had been founded by the means of miracles, and had so much of the spirit of Unity and Community, and had Apostles among them to preserve their peace: what wonder if we that are much ignorant of the Apostles minds, and of the Primitive pattern, and have less of the Spirit, have need to be still called upon to study to keep the ⟨p. 3⟩Vnity of the Spirit in the bond of peace? They that preach Twenty or an hundred Sermons for Purity, and scarce one with equal Zeal for Vnity and Peace, do not sufficiently discern that Purity and Peace are the inseparable fruits of the wisdom from above, 1which live and die together, and with them the souls and societies of believers.