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The new command renewed, or, Love one another being an endeavour after the unity…The new command renew'd, or, Love one another being an endeavour after the unity…
The new command renewed, or, Love one another being an endeavour after the unity of the spirit in the bond of peace, by several uniting principles, among which there are ten rules for a right understanding of scripture, very useful for these divided times / by Ralph Venning.The new command renew'd, or, Love one another being an endeavour after the unity of the spirit in the bond of peace, by several uniting principles, among which there are ten rules for a right understanding of scripture, very useful for these divided times / by Ralph Venning.
London: printed for John Rothwell, 1652
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.
Alas beloved! what hopes is there left for me to prevail? if Paul's, if Apollo's, if Christ's words have not taken with you, can mine expect to find acceptance? and yet me thinks I hope beyond hope, because I know that God hath all hearts in his own hand, and can turn them when and by whom he pleaseth; therefore though many out of their abundance have cast in much, I hope my mite will not be rejected. I must confess I have for a great while forborne, lest I should be a reproach and derision daily; but I am now overcome, and that by importunity, not so much from without (which yet was much) as from within (which was more): for these words were within mine heart like a burning fire shut up, and I was weary with forbearing, I could not contain. For while I held my peace from this good my heart was hot within me, and while I was musing the fire burnt, so that I could not but *first speak with my tongue, and now with my Pen.
Alas beloved! what hopes is there left for me to prevail? if Paul's, if Apollo's, if Christ's words have not taken with you, can mine expect to finde acceptance? and yet me thinks I hope beyond hope, because I know that God hath all hearts in his own hand, and can turn them when and by whom he pleaseth; therefore though many out of their abundance have cast in much, I hope my mite will not be rejected. I must confesse I have for a great while forborn, lest I should be a reproach and derision daily; but I am now overcome, and that by importunity, not so much from without (which yet was much) as from within (which was more): for these words were within mine heart like a burning fire shut up, and I was weary with forbearing, I could not contain. For while I held my peace from this good my heart was hot within me, and while I was musing the fire burnt, so that I could not but *first speak with my tongue, and now with my Pen.
- *The most of these heads were preach't at the Tower of London.