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The carnality of religious contention in two sermons preached at the merchant's lecture in…The carnality of religious contention in two sermons preach'd at the merchant's lecture in…
The carnality of religious contention in two sermons preached at the merchant's lecture in Broadstreet / by John Howe ...The carnality of religious contention in two sermons preach'd at the merchant's lecture in Broadstreet / by John Howe ...
London: printed by J. A. for Tho. Parkhurt, 1693
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.
4. How few that consider this as the provoking Cause of Christ's being so much a Stranger to the Christian Church! And how little is it to be hoped we shall ever see good days till this wasting Evil be redressed! Or that our glorious-Redeemer, who is Head of all things to the Church, should ever own it by visible Favours, should protect, cherish, enlarge it, or make it spread in the World, (and how little it is naturally in any probability of doing so) or that he should treat it as his, while it is so little it' self, and so little one.
4. How few that consider this as the provoking Cause of Christ's being so much a Stranger to the Christian Church! And how little is it to be hoped we shall ever see good days till this wasting Evil be redress'd! Or that our glorious-Redeemer, who is Head of all things to the Church, should ever own it by visible Favours, should protect, cherish, enlarge it, or make it spread in the World, (and how little it is naturally in any probability of doing so) or that he should treat it as his, while it is so little it' self, and so little one.
In the present (most deplorable) state of things, private, (that is carnal) Interest is the thing every where designed, by one Party, and another. And by wishing the Prosperity of the Church, or ⟨p. xiii⟩endeavouring it, is only meant seeking the Prosperity of our own Party. So that there can be no United Prayers, nor joint Endeavours for any truly Common good; but what seems desirable to some, is dreaded and deprecated by all the rest.
In the present (most deplorable) state of things, private, (that is carnal) Interest is the thing every where designed, by one Party, and another. And by wishing the Prosperity of the Church, or ⟨p. xiii⟩endeavouring it, is only meant seeking the Prosperity of our own Party. So that there can be no United Prayers, nor joynt Endeavours for any truly Common good; but what seems desirable to some, is dreaded and deprecated by all the rest.