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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.
Though in some this hath extraordinary advantage or disadvantage in the temperature of the body, yet it is that which persons of all tempers may be brought to by grace. A boisterous, furious or wild kind of disposition, is not the Christian healing spirit. If passion be apt to stir, wisdom and grace must repress it, and Lenity must be our ordinary temper: we must be like tame creatures, that familiarly come to a mans hand, and not like wild things that fly from us as untractable: otherwise how will such in Love and peace and sociable concord, ever carry on the work of Christ?
Though in some this hath extraordinary advantage or disadvantage in the temperature of the body, yet it is that which persons of all tempers may be brought to by grace. A boisterous, furious or wild kind of disposition, is not the Christian healing spirit. If passion be apt to stir, wisdom and grace must repress it, and Lenity must be our ordinary temper: we must be like tame creatures, that familiarly come to a mans hand, and not like wild things that flye from us as untractable: otherwise how will such in Love and peace and sociable concord, ever carry on the work of Christ?
Doct. 6. Love to each other is a great part of Christian worthiness, and a most necessary cause of Unity and peace. Of which I hope to say so much by it self (if God will) as that I shall here pass it by. It being the very Heart and Life of Unity.
Doct. 6. Love to each other is a great part of Christian worthiness, and a most necessary cause of Vnity and peace. Of which I hope to say so much by it self (if God will) as that I shall here pass it by. It being the very Heart and Life of Vnity.
Doct. 7. Long suffering or a patient mind not rash, or hasty, is another part of Christian worthiness, and a necessary Cause of Unity and peace.