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The staves of beauty & bands opened in a sermon preached at Yarmouth, August…The staves of beauty & bands opened in a sermon preached at Yarmovth, August…
The staves of beauty & bands opened in a sermon preached at Yarmouth, August 23, 1663 / by Edward, Lord Bishop of Norwich.The staves of beauty & bands opened in a sermon preached at Yarmovth, August 23, 1663 / by Edward, Lord Bishop of Norwich.
London: printed by T. Ratcliffe for George Thomason, 1663
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. A Facili, It is not only possible, but easy for Believers to be at peace one with another; those things which are natural are ever wrought without difficulty, it is not hard for the Sun to shine, or the fire to burn, nothing more easy then for the members in one body to agree with one another: And Believers are members of the same body, and have one common spirit to actuate and animate them, and therefore should suffer and rejoice together, and be kindly affectioned one towards another with brotherly love, as the Apostle argueth, Rom. 12. 4, 10. 1 Cor. 1•. 12, 13. 25. 26.
4. A Facili, It is not only possible, but easie for Believers to be at peace one with another; those things which are natural are ever wrought without difficulty, it is not hard for the Sun to shine, or the fire to burn, nothing more easie then for the members in one body to agree with one another: And Believers are members of the same body, and have one common spirit to actuate and animate them, and therefore should suffer and rejoyce together, and be kindly affectioned one towards another with brotherly love, as the Apostle argueth, Rom. 12. 4, 10. 1 Cor. 1•. 12, 13. 25. 26.
5. Ab Utili▪ from the great good & advantage which hereby cometh unto the Church; it is as the dew of Hermon which bringeth a blessing with it; it strengtheneth against all adverse power, and ⟨p. 59⟩maketh the Church terrible as an Army with Banners; it openeth the passages for Communion of Saints, that they may derive good from one another by the supply that every joint maketh, as divers members in the body have divers uses, the eye to see, the ear to hear, the tongue to speak, the hand to work; and these Uses mutually serviceable to the good of each other, and Union a necessary bond of this Service, so in the Church or body of Christ, every member hath his measure of gifts and graces, by which he may be profitable to the whole;