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CXLV expository sermons upon the whole 17th chapter of the Gospel according to St.…
CXLV expository sermons upon the whole 17th chapter of the Gospel according to St. John, or, Christs prayer before his passion explicated, and both practically and polemically improved by Anthony Burgess ...
London: printed by Abraham Miller for Thomas Underhill, 1656
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Nor make the Church like the Ark, wherein all beasts clean and unclean were received. No, such remissness breaketh unity; as the strings not well-wound up cannot make any melodious sound, and the paralytical members of the body, for want of the due firmness, cause many feeble operations. There is a Sect called the Family of Love, as if they only had peace and unity amongst them, but they would have all things, even wives common, and so their unity is a fomenter of sin, and confounds those relations God hath distinguished.
Nor make the Church like the Ark, wherein all beasts clean and unclean were received. No, such remisness breaketh unity; as the strings not well-wound up cannot make any melodious sound, and the paralytical members of the body, for want of the due firmnesse, cause many feeble operations. There is a Sect called the Family of Love, as if they only had peace and unity amongst them, but they would have all things, even wives common, and so their unity is a fomenter of sinne, and confounds those relations God hath distinguished.
These Cautions premised,1 Let us consider what remedies are fit to heal these wounds. As in the natural b•dy, a wound is Solutio continui; so in this spiritual body of the Church, and as to wounds, unless there be wisdom and skill, they are made worse by Empirics. Thus unless there be proportionable and fit remedies applied with wisdom and compassion, the breach is made greater.2 And
These Cautions premised,1 Let us consider what remedies are fit to heal these wounds. As in the natural b•dy, a wound is Solutio continui; so in this spiritual body of the Church, and as to wounds, unless there be wisdome and skill, they are made worse by Empericks. Thus unless there be proportionable and fit remedies applied with wisdom and compassion, the breach is made greater.