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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.
SECT. IV.
THE Excellency and Advantages of Union and Peace, being such as I have mentioned, (to which many more might be added) it will easily be granted, that all Christians are obliged to endeavour the obtaining of it. Things so worthy and excellent, so profitable and advantageous to Kingdoms and Nations, to Cities, Towns and Villages, ⟨p. 12⟩Families, and single persons, to the Bodies and Souls of men, certainly ought to be prosecuted with utmost might and endeavour; it should be sought as Silver, and searched after as fine Gold. All just and prudent means should be essayed for the attaining of it.
THE Excellency and Advantages of Union and Peace, being such as I have mentioned, (to which many more might be added) it will easily be granted, that all Christians are obliged to endeavour the obtaining of it. Things so worthy and excellent, so profitable and advantagious to Kingdoms and Nations, to Cities, Towns and Villages, ⟨p. 12⟩Families, and single persons, to the Bodies and Souls of men, certainly ought to be prosecuted with utmost might and endeavour; it should be sought as Silver, and searched after as fine Gold. All just and prudent means should be essayed for the attaining of it.
Our Interest, as well as our Duty, layeth on us the greatest obligations to seek and pursue Peace and Unity. The love of our selves, and our own advantages, as well as the many Precepts, and earnest Exhortations of Jesus Christ, and his Apostles, should make us earnest and zealous in our labours to obtain it. Strife and Contention, Divisions and Factions, destroy and take away all the comforts and pleasures of life, and are great breaches of the Divine Commandments; yea they are a mighty reproach and scandal to the Christian Religion, and huge pleasure and gratification to the Devil, that great Enemy of God and Men.