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The Samaritan showing that many and unnecessary impositions are not the oil that must…The Samaritan shewing that many and unnecessary impositions are not the oyl that must…
The Samaritan showing that many and unnecessary impositions are not the oil that must heal the church together with the way or means to do it / by a country gentleman who goes to common-prayer and not to meetings.The Samaritan shewing that many and unnecessary impositions are not the oyl that must heal the church together with the way or means to do it / by a country gentleman who goes to common-prayer and not to meetings.
London: printed for Tho. Simmons, 1682
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.
The Excellencies and Advantages of Union, are most evident in the Causes of it, and in the Effects that it produces in the World. Union is the effect of good Knowledge, & sound Understanding; (for that Union that is seen among the Ignorant, is no other than what is found in a heap of Logs or Stones, which doth not indeed deserve that name.)
Those that fill the World with Controversies, Quarrels and Contentions, are for the most part men of small understanding, and of raw and undigested notions. 'Tis half-witted people that set the Churches of Christendom together by the Ears, and kindle those flames in the House of God, that are like utterly to waste and consume it. Men of ⟨p. 6⟩great understanding are modest and peaceable; they will not contend for trifles, nor express great Zeal for any thing, but the great Essentials of Faith and Godliness: They will not suspend the Peace of the Church upon uncertain, or unnecessary things. In things of that nature they can permit men to their Liberty, and where Liberty is permitted, there is seldom any Controversy; but where there is unnecessary restraint, there is everlasting quarrels, and will be to all Generations.
Those that fill the World with Controversies, Quarrels and Contentions, are for the most part men of small understanding, and of raw and undigested notions. 'Tis half-witted people that set the Churches of Christendom together by the Ears, and kindle those flames in the House of God, that are like utterly to waste and consume it. Men of ⟨p. 6⟩great understanding are modest and peaceable; they will not contend for trifles, nor express great Zeal for any thing, but the great Essentials of Faith and Godliness: They will not suspend the Peace of the Church upon uncertain, or unnecessary things. In things of that nature they can permit men to their Liberty, and where Liberty is permitted, there is seldom any Controversie; but where there is unnecessary restraint, there is everlasting quarrels, and will be to all Generations.