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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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3. Do not impropriate Christ to any one party or sort of professors; the Apostle reproveth those that said, I am of Christ as well as those that said I am of Paul, 1 Cor. 1. 13. Those that spake as if Christ were only theirs, they were accounted a faction too, Jude wrote in times of division and delusion, and he calleth the salvation a common salvation, Jude's Epist. ver. 3. mine and yours and theirs too; men should not speak as if they only were holy, they only were Saints, and all others but the world at the best, but civill and convinced men; nothing enrageth more then to confine Christ to an opinion, as if all Religion did begin and end with it, naturally we are apt to do so, we envy the commonness of Christian privileges: but it should not be so among the Lords people, there were differences at Corinth, but how doth Paul write to them? 1 Cor. 1. 2. To the Saints at Corinth, and to all that call on the name of Jesus Christ, THEIRS and OURS; mark that clause, theirs and ours, he checketh this natural envy, in us, which would impale and enclose the free Christ, the common salvation, twas an expression* Tertullian used of some in his time, illic ipsum esse est promereri, 'twas Religion enough to be one of them, oh certainly this is not Christian; we must own that of God that we see in them, though they do not every way come up to our mind, we prize a jewel in a Toads head, how much more should we love grace in brethren, whose blemish is only some petty dissent,2 Christ loved the young-man for the moral good that was in him, and I remember in another place he checketh his disciples for prohibiting one to do miracles in his name, because he did not follow them 'tis in Mark. 9. 38. 39. 40. where he speaketh expressly to this very case, it is most Christian to own the work ⟨p. 34⟩of the Spirit every where, wheresoever we find it.
3. Doe not impropriate Christ to any one party or sort of professors; the Apostle reproveth those that said, I am of Christ as well as those that said I am of Paul,