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The second part of The nonconformists plea for peace being an account of their…
The second part of The nonconformists plea for peace being an account of their principles about civil and ecclesiastical authority and obedience ... : mostly written many years past, and now published to save our lives and the kingdoms peace, from the false and bloody plotters ... / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for John Hancock, 1680
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.
7. The greatest pretenders to unity and Peace in the world, have been the Roman Clergy; and next them those of Constantinople: And none in the world have been ⟨p. 150⟩greater Church dividers, by making impossible Terms of unity and peace.
8. The chiefest impediments to unity and Peace in the world are, 1. A wicked selfish heart, and 2. Impossible Terms; and under both the Church still bleedeth.
9. As the Terms of Gods first sentence did put an everlasting enmity between the Woman's and the Serpents seed, so it was showed in the two first Brothers that ever were born into the world; who had the same Parents and education, and were of the same Religion, and yet the elder slew the younger for offering to God a more faithful and acceptable Sacrifice, and for a better manner of serving God in the same religion: Even because his own works were bad, and his brothers good. Gen. 4. 4, 8. Heb. 11. 4. 1 Joh. 3. 12. Jud. 11.
9. As the Terms of Gods first sentence did put an everlasting enmity between the Womans and the Serpents seed, so it was shewed in the two first Brothers that ever were born into the world; who had the same Parents and education, and were of the same Religion, and yet the elder slew the younger for offering to God a more faithful and acceptable Sacrifice, and for a better manner of serving God in the same religion: Even because his own works were bad, and his brothers good.