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Meat out of the eater, or, Hopes of unity in and by divided and…Meate out of the eater, or, Hopes of unity in and by divided and…
Meat out of the eater, or, Hopes of unity in and by divided and distracted times. Discovered in a sermon preached before the Honourable house of Commons at Margarets Westminster on their solemn day of fast, June 30. 1647. / By Tho: Manton Minister of Stoke-Newington.Meate out of the eater, or, Hopes of unity in and by divided and distracted times. Discovered in a sermon preached before the Honourable house of Commons at Margarets Westminster on their solemne day of fast, June 30. 1647. / By Tho: Manton Minister of Stoke-Newington.
London: printed by M.S. for Hanna Allen, 1647
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Secondly, Some are for medleys and compounds of religion, as if that would be peace: Thus Charles the fifth thought to please all by that wicked book called the Interim, it did a great deal of harm, and did not any way heal the difference; many of late amongst us and in other reformed Churches endeavoured to blend us & Rome, Babylon, and Zion together, God hateth those iniquos syncretismos profane mixtures, and intermysticall designs; unity consists in an agreement in the truth, not in a coagulation of errors, strings that are in tune must not be stirred, others must be set up to them: The disobedient must be brought up to the wisdom of the just, not that brought down to them, Luke 1. 17. when the language is pure the Soldier is one, Zeph. 3. 9. little hopes of agreement till you set up pure doctrine, unmixed discipline, the new cloth set upon the old will make the rent the greater, the world thinks the less purity the more unity; but 'tis otherwise, all the troubles are because Iron will not mix with Clay, Gods ways with man's inventions.
Secondly, Some are for medleyes and compounds of religion, as if that would be peace: Thus Charles the fifth thought to please all by that wicked booke called the Interim, it did a great deale of harme, and did not any way heale the difference; many of late amongst us and in other reformed Churches endeavored to blend us & Rome, Babilon, and Zion together, God hateth those iniquos syncretismos prophane mixtures, and intermysticall designes; unity consists in an agreement in the truth, not in a coagulation of errors, strings that are in tune must not be stirred, others must be set up to them: The disobedient must bee brought up to the wisedome of the just, not that brought downe to them, Luke 1. 17. when the language is pure the Souldier is one, Zeph. 3. 9. little hopes of agreement till you set up pure doctrine, unmixed disipline, the new cloth set upon the old will make the rent the greater, the world thinks the lesse purity the more unity; but 'tis otherwise, all the troubles are because Iron will not mixe with Clay, Gods waies with man's inventions.