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Blessed unions. An union with the son of God by faith. And, an union…
Blessed unions. An union with the son of God by faith. And, an union in the church of God by love, importunately pressed; in a discourse which makes divers offers, for those unions; together with a copy of those articles, where-upon a most happy union, has been lately made between those two eminent parties in England, which have now changed the names of Presbyterians, and Congregationals, for that of United Brethren. / By Cotton Mather ; [Six lines from Mead]
Boston: printed by B. Green for Samuel Phillips, 1692
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.
OBSERVATION 2. There is a Blessed UNION which Believers on the Lord Jesus Christ, are Thr• Him, to have with One Another.
In Chrysostoms Days, 'twas, I think •n […] and ungodly Superstition among many people, to make, The Seventeenth Chapter of John, a sort of Spell whereby Evil Spirits were Exorcised among them. It will be but agreeable to the best Religion, if One Verse in that Chapter may now prove a Strong Charm, [it is a piece of Gods Spell!] to lay those Evil Spirits of Contention and Confusion which have sometimes too much obtained among the People of God.
In Chr•sostoms Dayes, 'twas, I think •n 〈…〉 and ungodly Superstition among many people, to make, The Seventeenth Chapter of John, a sort of Spell whereby Evil Spirits were Exorcis'd among them. It will be but agreeable to the best Religion, if One Verse in that Chapter may now prove a Strong Charm, [it is a piece of Gods Spell!] to lay those Evil Spirits of Contention and Confusion which have sometimes too much obtained among the People of God.
I am therefore now to mind you, That the same Spirit which Unites Believers unto the Lord Jesus Christ, as Members to their Head, is also to United the Members unto each other in the ⟨p. 41⟩Lord. I am to Address you in the Words of the Apostle, Phil. 2. 1,2. If there be any Fellowship of the Spirit, be like-minded, having the same Love, being of one Accord, of one Mind. Let us prove our Union with the Lord Jesus Christ, by our having of that Spirit which He does Inspire all Believers with; and let us prove our having of that Spirit by our Union with all Believers. Our Lord here says, That they all may be ONE. The Greek Word is of the Neuter Gender; and Luther thinks that the Work, Somoe, or Body, is the Substantive to be understood: And indeed we are to be in our Union, as one Body of the Lord Jesus Christ. It is not enough that we have an Invisible Union with all the Saints of God; but we must have a visible Union too, or such an one as our Context mentions, That the World may Believe, at the Contemplation and Invitation of it. If then it be the