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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 1 › Principle 1: The first 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.
1. Self-Conceit. 2. Pride of heart. 3. Satan's policy.
1. Self-Conceit. 2. Pride of heart. 3. Satans policie.
1. 1A self-conceit that each of them is in the right; every man hath a good opinion of his own opinion. 2Every man puts it off from himself, and instead of saying as did the Disciples, (when Christ told them, one of you shall betray me) Master is it I? most are ready to say, Master 'tis not I. 3Most men instead of confessing their blindness, ask like the scornful Pharisee, are we blind? so loth are men to suspect their own defects. It was just so in the time of the division between the Roman and Grecian Churches, each justified themselves, and neither would acknowledge themselves to be in the error. But Christians hear a little; if you think your selves in the right, I hope you think so on good grounds, and not that you are in the right merely by thinking so: now if your grounds be good upon which your conceits are ⟨p. 11⟩built, you need not be afraid, nay you may be encouraged to produce them with boldness. 'Tis to be suspected that they who refuse to bring forth their strong arguments, have no strong arguments to bring forth. Christ tells us, Joh. 3.21. 4that he that doth truth (and he that holds truth) cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.
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