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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.
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; 1upon his falling away from God, might be gathered together into one.
When this Image was defaced, and man continued not in his uprightnesse, that is, in his simplicity and onenesse; that which God aimed at in the restauration of man, was the reparation of his image onenesse: that God and man might be one againe. Yea, that in Christ all things in Heaven and Earth, which were fallen out with, and fallen away from man; 1upon his falling away from God, might be gathered together into one.
Yea, all the dispensations and dispensators which God hath left in the world are to disappear and be no more, when once the Saints come in, 1or (more emphatically) into the unity of the faith;
- 1[Greek or Hebrew] Ephes. 4.13〈non-Latin alphabet〉 Ephes. 4.13