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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.
2. To agree in the Fundamentals, in the mystery of Godliness, the Unity of the Faith, the Principles of Doctrine, the Rule by which we are all to walk, in thez saving knowledge of God and Christ, unto which eternal Life is annexed, and without which it cannot be had; in the aspiritual Worship of God, calling upon him, and coming unto him, in and by Christ; and in those primary grounds of Christian Obedience, Repentance, Sincerity, Love of Christ, Self-denial; & where there is an unfeigned and unanimous Agreement in these, there is a ground laid for discovery of the Truth in matters of smaller Difference. Agreement in Principles is a fair preparation unto agreement in all those Conclusions, which are naturally deducible from those Principles: and the more clearly we understand ⟨p. 75⟩the Comprehension of Principles, the more exactly we shall discern the genuine Connection of true conclusions, and the inconsistency of those which are false and fallacious.
- zJoh. 17. 3. 8. 24. Act. 4. 11, 12. 1 Cor. 1. 23. 2. 2. 3. 11.
- aJoh. 4. 24. 16. 23. Heb. 7. 25. Col. 3. 17.
3. In the things whereunto we have attained tob