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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.
in the same Decalogue, the same Law-giver that says, Thou shalt not Worship a Graven Image, also says, Thou shalt not bear False Witness against thy Neighbour. Where-ever we can see, Al•quid Christ any thing of Christ, let it be dear to us. A Moses may pay for an undue Heat against his Erring Brethren and the case may be so, that an Erroneous Cyprian may deserve better ⟨p. 77⟩th•n an Orthodox Stephen, in the Charitable Resentments of Godly Men. If nothing will satisfy us, but the Extirpation of all that are not of our party, God has told us what will follow, Ye shall be Consumed one of another. I may argue as L•ct•ntius did of old; your Opposites are either Wise or Fools: If they be Wise, you should Follow them; if they be Fools, you should Pity them; there is no place for any Malicious Pro••• […] Let me, in a word say, as the Apostle once, Why dost thou set at ••ought thy Brother? Let us follow after •he things that make for Peace: and let me beg, That the Fourteenth Chapter to the Romans mayn't become Apocrypha.
in the same Decalogue, the same Law-giver that says, Thou shalt not Worship a Graven Image, also says, Thou shalt not bear False Witness against thy Neighbour. Where-ever we can see, Al•quid Christ any thing of Christ, let it be dear to us. A Moses may pay for an undue Heat against his Erring Brethren and the case may be so, that an Erroneus Cyprian may deserve better ⟨p. 77⟩th•n an Orthodox Stephen, in the Charitable Resentments of Godly Men. If nothing will satisfie us, but the Extirpation of all that are not of our party, God has told us what will follow, Ye shall be Consumed one of another. I may argue as L•ct•ntius did of old; your Opposites are either Wise or Fools: If they be Wise, you should Follow them; if they be Fools, you should Pitty them; there is no place for any Malicious Pro Let me, in a word say, as the Apostle once, Why dost thou set at ought thy Brother? Let us follow after he things that make for Peace: and let me beg, That the Fourteenth Chapter to the Romans mayn't become Apochrypha.