The Cure of Church-Divisions, or Directions for Weak Christians, to Keep Them from Being Dividers, or Troublers of the Church: With Some Directions to the Pastors, How to Deal with Such Christians (Classic Reprint)

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The more erromom impure or fmndalomi and pnprofitable; And if the fick'will make themfelv'es and call the fouied, thd Ade/fife flirt], I will endeavour to be one of a Part] in that fence and to 0597 God as exactly asi writable, and to. War/hip him'is fpzrz'tml/y and Iqolz'l] as I can, anti to Love him'with all my mind, and heart and firefly/y, and lament thati can reach no hi her, andwdono a'n'd'if any'wilh ca I this By the name oi-pierefie or Schifin, ll fee thati can avhid Herefie' and at as 'dear'a ratio, as enduring the Name and Imputation of that which I avoid. It isnot the Nameof a schifmatick that'i an'i Writing againf'ci but the' What ever Name it is called. It is fove and peace which I am ns, which I' Fead agamfi: and it is the' Hiparrz'fie 0 men Which liclei'tefi, Limivnitjflnd and Will not, or dare not 'thern'; a'iid' defie them, but kill them with differfihlinfg kindnefs who cry-themhp, while they tread them down {and fll/ow peace' With all men, 'that afe not of their party, as'the' Dog'followcth the Hare, to tear it in pieces anddeflroyfgliers'fecrn odious and {mimic/j; By. Evil fury mifings, proud undervaluing the worth of others, bufie and groundlefs cenfuring of men, whole cafe they knew nor; aggrava ting frailties, fijigrnatizing the perlons, the aetions, the worlhip and religious pc-for manees ofdilfenters, with fuch odious ter. Rible names, and Charaeters, as their pride. And faction do fuggeft and all this to fircngthen the 'interel'c of their fide and part], and to make themfelt'es and their confenters to feem wife and good, by make ing others feem fiols and bad: Though they thereby proclaim themfelves to be (0 much the worft, by how much they are molt void of Low. They are all for C074, cord, but it is only on their narrow faetious 'tetjms They are for Peace but it is not 'of the whole fireet, but of their boafe alone; or not of the whole City, but of their [freer alone; or not of the whole Kingdome' bug: pf their Cit/v alone. 0 What a blefi ed thing were peace, if all would derive it from t/ir wills, and terminate itintheir z'fitcrefl, and they might be the Center of Unity to the world! Thatis, that they might be God: 0; Cbrz'fis.' fuch excellent Architeets are they that they can build Cbrz'fls houfe 'by pulling it in Pcices and fuch excellent Chirur geons that they will heal Chrifls body by A 'l'eparatingfeparating the members and can make' as many Bodies as there are feparated parts. 2. Nor 18 it any or much of the bufinefs of this book, to fpeak to thofe tliat I think are deeplief't guilty of the Schifms of the fhrifiian World: For they are ing, 8: Will not read or regard til It 15 the 20mm Head and Center of Unity which hath done molt to divide the Church. And 1t 15 the contending of Rome and C'mflzmtz'flople for the Supremacy which hath made the greatel't Schifms that the Chriltian world hath known: And the uh: be anfwerable.

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