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[ED: Softcover], [PU: Cambridge Scholars Publishing], Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: SERMON III. ISAIAH XXX, 21. THIS IS THE WAY: WALK YE IN IT. Dearly beloved brethren, in our last discourse it was our endeavour, with God's assistance, to set forth to you in an argumentative manner some few among the reasons whereby Christian men are bound to preserve the Unity not of the Spirit only, but of the Body likewise, and at the same time to put you in remembrance of those divers passages of Holy Writ, wherein the Lord Almighty desireth to impress upon his people the danger of those divisions into which the sinful heart of man so readily doth fall, and to establish in their minds this most excellent and right godly notion, that all such as would truly please and be accepted of him, must labour to keep the Unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace the which if they shall wilfully and obstinately refuse to do, our duty is to forewarn them that they thereby do violate the commandmentofour Blessed Lord and his Apostles, and may peradventure bring themselves unto swift destruction. We desire now, having thus prepared the way for the better understanding of this whole subject, to address ourselves briefly to consider the matter in its detail: and forasmuch as it doth most unhappily appear that the Unity whereof Christ spake hath no present existence among us, we may observe that such an unity could be formed only in one or other of these two ways. For either it might be effected by all the various denominations of Christians consenting with one accord to waive their differences, and thus coalescing into one, without respect being had to the claims of any above the rest ?-or else it might be done, by one single division retaining its original integrity, while all the others having by common consent resigned their respective peculiarities, should assemble round the standa...Versandfertig in 6-10 Tagen, [SC: 0.00]<

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