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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.
PART. I.
Gods one and only design is, by the words of his mouth, and the works of his hands; to bring forth his own *Image in all times and dispensations; and that is oneness. When he created man, he made him the likeness and image of himself, one; yea, though he created Male and Female, 2yet were they not two, but one flesh.
GOds one and only design is, by the words of his mouth, and the works of his hands; to bring forth his own *Image in all times and dispensations; and that is onenesse. When he created man, he made him the likenesse and image of himself, one; yea, though he created Male and Female, 2yet were they not two, but one flesh.
When this Image was defaced, and man continued not in his uprightness, that is, in his simplicity and oneness; that which God aimed at in the restoration of man, was the reparation of his image oneness: that God and man might be one again. Yea, that in Christ all things in Heaven and Earth, which were fallen out with, and fallen away from man;