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Several discourses tending to promote peace & holiness among Christians to which are added,…
Several discourses tending to promote peace & holiness among Christians to which are added, three other distinct sermons / by Dr. Manton.
London: printed for Jonathan Robinson, 1685
A Persuasive to Unity in Things Indifferent.A Perswasive to Unity in Things Indifferent.
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.
Seven uniting Considerations are there heaped up together.
1. There is one Body of Christ, whereof all are Members. The whole Church maketh but one Body knit by Faith to Christ their Head, and by the Bond of Love among themselves; and the meanest Christian is a Member in this Body. Now 'tis unnatural, if the Members of the same Body should tear and destroy one another, and that the Body of Christ should ⟨p. 200⟩be rent and torn; and woe be to them by whom it is so.
1. There is one Body of Christ, whereof all are Members. The whole Church maketh but one Body knit by Faith to Christ their Head, and by the Bond of Love among themselves; and the meanest Christian is a Member in this Body. Now 'tis unnatural, if the Members of the same Body should tear and destroy one another, and that the Body of Christ should ⟨p. 200⟩be rent and torn; and wo be to them by whom it is so.
2. This Body is animated by one Spirit, that if any be a Member of this Body, it's necessary that he have the Spirit of God abiding in him, to renew and quicken him. Now this one and the self-same Spirit, as the Apostle calleth him, 1 Cor. 12. 13. worketh in all the Saints; if his Gifts be various, they proceed from the same Author, and they are variously dispensed to preserve Society and Communion, that one may not say to another, I have no need of thee. However, there is but one new Nature in all the Sanctified.