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The dying man's testament to the Church of Scotland, or, A treatise concerning scandal…
The dying man's testament to the Church of Scotland, or, A treatise concerning scandal divided into four parts ... : in each of which there are not a few choice and useful questions, very shortly and satisfyingly discussed and cleared / by ... Mr. James Durham ... who being dead (by this) yet speaketh ; and published by John Carstares ... ; to which is prefixed an excellent preface of famous Mr. Blair ... ; together with a table of the contents of the several chapters of each part.
Edinburgh: printed by Christopher Higgins, 1659
Part 4 › Chapter 8: Some preparatory endeavours for uniting.
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6. Serious and single thoughts of union would be1 laid down, and that would be purposely driven as the great duty; so that endeavours would not principally tend to strengthen a side, or exover themselves, or get advantage to others, &c. but to make one of both; and therefore when one mean or occasion faileth, another would be essayed; neither would men weary or faint herein, although it prove often a most fainting business.
6. Serious and single thoughts of union would be1 laid down, and that would be purposly driven as the great duty; so that endeavours would not principally tend to strengthen a side, or exouer themselves, or get advantage to others, &c. but to make one of both; and therefore when one mean or occasion faileth, another would be essayed; neither would men weary or faint herein, although it prove often a most fainting businesse.
- 1Constancy and singleness herein.
7. Men would endeavour all this with tenderness1 and respect to mens persons, actions and qualifications; for, oftentimes the rise of a division, is in the alienation of affections between some persons; which ⟨p. 340⟩afterward disposeth to construct hardly both of their opinions and actions: and indeed often the stick is here, that mens affections are not satisfied one with another, and that maketh them that they do not trust each other: Hence we see, that in the Scripture, the commending of love, and of honouring and preferring of others in honour to our selves, is ordinarily subjoined to the exhortations to union, or reproofs of division, as,