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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 4 › Argument 4: The fourth provoking Argument.
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.
The fourth provoking Argument.
Fourthly, 1Your union and communion one with another, ⟨p. 46⟩your loving one of another, will remove the scandals which your divisions bring upon the truth of God. There is no such stumbling block which causeth the world to wave the way of God, as the division of Saints.
- 14 Argument.
It is bad like (saith the World) that they can teach us the truth, when they cannot agree about it themselves. Blessed God! what a reproach is this? Oh that this should be published in Askalon, and spoken in Gath!
Christians, would it not make you blush, if you should hear poor souls (as I have heard (the Lord knows) with a sorry heart) come and tell you, that there is nothing keeps them so much in doubt, nothing fills them so full of fears, as the division of Saints.