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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.
45. The true servants of Christ do differ from them both, not in approving either of their furies, nor in falling in as parties with either of the factions; but in living in Love as the servants of the God of Love, and making Love their end and work, and addicting themselves to promote it in the world; by observing all that is good in all others, and not searching needlessly after their faults, nor censoriously enviously or malignantly aggravating them, but hoping the best till the worst be proved, and bearing with the infirmities of the weak, remembering that we also may be tempted, Gal. 6. 1, 2. And if possible as much as in them lieth, living peaceably with all men, Rom. 12. 18.
45. The true servants of Christ do differ from them both, not in approving either of their furies, nor in falling in as parties with either of the factions; but in living in Love as the servants of the God of Love, and making Love their end and work, and addicting themselves to promote it in the world; by observing all that is good in all others, and not searching needlesly after their faults, nor censoriously enviously or malignantly aggravating them, but hoping the best till the worst be proved, and bearing with the infirmities of the weak, remembring that we also may be tempted, Gal. 6. 1, 2. And if possible as much as in them lieth, living peaceably with all men, Rom. 12. 18.
46. If one side (that are all for the dead image of Christianity, and are not able to endure the serious practice of their own profession) would cease their Hypocrisy, and either be what they profess, or profess to be what they are, and would value the soul as well as the adorned Corps; And if the other side would lay by their pride and ignorance, and know how little indeed they know, and remember that in this Corporeal world, Religion must have a Body as well as a soul, the Church would the better escape them both.