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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.
Gods work must be done as our trade and business and not on the by, as taking up the place and time which mens fleshly and worldly interest and work can spare.
Had the Church such men enow as I have described, and as some have been (such as Cyprian, Nazianzene, Basil, Chrysostom, Atticus, Proclus, Hierom, Augustine, Ambrose, Martin, Salvian, &c. and such as Melanchthon, Bucholtzer, Bucer, Phagius, Musculus, Martyr, Calvin, Beza, Ursine, Olevian, Paraeus, Camero, Placeus, Molineus, Dallaeus, Blondel, Chamier, Sadeel, Le Blank, &c. and such as we have had many in England, Jewel, Grindal, Field, Reignolds, Usher, ⟨p. 222⟩Morton, Hall, Davenant, Chillingworth, Hildersham, Dod, Ball, Bradshaw, Gataker, &c. and such as yet through Gods great mercy we have many, (I say had the world enow such as these, the light would scatter the dismal darkness, and they would carry on Christs interest in the Churches, against the opposition of Usurpers, heretics and contenders: For even a few such have broke through armies of Philistines to fetch men the sacred waters of life. And it is not scruples and quarrels about their ordinations or such like as would frustrate their endeavours.
Had the Church such men enow as I have described, and as some have been (such as Cyprian, Nazianzene, Basil, Chrysostom, Atticus, Proclus, Hierom, Augustine, Ambrose, Martin, Salvian, &c. and such as Melancthon, Bucholtzer, Bucer, Phagius, Musculus, Martyr, Calvin, Beza, Vrsine, Olevian, Paraeus, Camero, Placeus, Molineus, Dallaeus, Blondel, Chamier, Sadeel, Le Blank, &c. and such as we have had many in England, Jewel, Grindal, Field, Reignolds, Vsher, ⟨p. 222⟩Morton, Hall, Davenant, Chillingworth, Hildersham, Dod, Ball, Bradshaw, Gataker, &c. and such as yet through Gods great mercy we have many, (I say had the world enow such as these, the light would scatter the dismal darkness, and they would carry on Christs interest in the Churches, against the opposition of Usurpers, hereticks and contenders: For even a few such have broke through armies of Philistines to fetch men the sacred waters of life. And it is not scruples and quarrels about their ordinations or such like as would frustrate their endeavours.