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Of charity in reference to other mens sins
Of charity in reference to other mens sins by John Howe ...
London: printed for Tho. Parkhurst, 1681
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.
But a genuine, equally diffused Charity, how would it melt down mens minds, mollify their rigours, make high things low, crooked straight, and rough places plain?
But a genuine, equally diffused Charity, how would it melt down mens minds, mollifie their rigors, make high things low, crooked straight, and rough places plain?
It would certainly, either dispose men to agree upon one way of common order, or make them feel very little inconvenience, or cause of offence in some variety.
It would certainly, either disposemen to agree upon one way of common order, or make them feel very little inconvenience, or cause of offence in some variety.
But without it, how little would the most exquisite unexceptionable form (universally complied with, in every punctilio) contribute to the Churches welfare? No more to its quiet, and repose, than an elegant, well shaped garment, to the ease, and rest of a disjointed, ulcerous body. Nor longer preserve it, than the fair skin of a dead mans body would do that, from putrefaction, and dissolution.
But without it, how little would the most exquisite unexceptionable form (universally comply'd with, in every punctilio) contribute to the Churches welfare? No more to its quiet, and repose, than an elegant, well shap'd garment, to the ease, and rest of a disjoynted, ulcerous body. Nor longer preserve it, than the fair skin of a dead mans body would do that, from putrefaction, and dissolution.