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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.
First, We are to be United in […] Profession. And this must be a true Profession too; or else our Union is but Faction, and no better than that of Jew• or Turks. What says the Apostle, […] 1 Cor. 1. 10. I beseech you Brethren, b• the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ, tha• ye all speak the same Thing, and that there be no Divisions among you; but that ye be perfectly joined together, in the same Mind, and in the same Judgment. As fat as we can, we should be of the same Opinion, and hold the same Doctrine o• Christianity; be sure we must concur in all the Fundamental Ones, or else we cut off our selves from the, Communion of Saints; and as he that had the Plague in his head, we are shut out from the Camp and Church of God. The Pagans counted, Harmonia, to be a Deity; and an, Harmony of Confessions among all Christians, is a Divine sort of a Thing. Yet Speciosum quidem est Nomen pacts, & pulchra Opinio Unitatis; fed quis ambigat •am solam unicam Ecclesioe pacem esse quoe Christi est?
First, We are to be United in 〈…〉 Profession. And this must be a true Profession too; or else our Union is but Faction, and no better than that of Jew• or Turks. What says the Apostle, 〈…〉 1 Cor. 1. 10. I beseech you Brethren, b• the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ, tha• ye all speak the same Thing, and that there be no Divisions among you; but that ye be perfectly joined together, in the same Mind, and in the same Judgment. As fat as we can, we should be of the same Opinion, and hold the same Doctrine o• Christianity; be sure we must concu• in all the Fundamental Ones, or els• we cut off our selves from the, Communion of Saints; and as he that had the Plague in his head, we are shut out from the Camp and Church of God. The Pagans counted, Harmonia, to be a Deity; and an, Harmony of Confessions among all Christians, is a Divine sort of a Thing. Yet Speciosum quidem est Nomen pacts, & pulchra Opinio Unitatis; fed quis ambigat am solam unicam Ecclesioe pacem esse quoe Christi est?