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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
THE NEW COMMAND RENEWED: OR, Love one another. › Part 2 › Principle 6: The sixth Principle.
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.
6. 1Go not about to make one another odious by representing things worse then they are. Many times the picture of the Lion is more dreadful then the Lion himself. Good Lord! in what black, ugly and deformed shapes do men set forth one another, as if they were Monsters and no men?
- 16. Principle.
Ah— —Pudétque referre, ⟨p. 27⟩Haec dici potuisse, & non potuisse refelli. Ah—
I blush to tell it, That I can speak it, But cannot refel it.
I blush to tell it, That I can speak it, But cannot refell it.
Tertullus never strained his Oratory against Paul, nor Tobias and Sanballat theirs against Nehemiah, more then Christians (if at least they be as they are called) do strain theirs to bring one another under disrespect and odium.