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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A53013	A new--years--gift for Protestants with the true cause of the diversity of religions. Being a new discovery of the essence and foundation from whence all religions is derived, for the salvation of all mankind through Christ, which from the beginning of the world, was but one and the same that is now, and will be to the end thereof, whereby to lead all into truth and unity of religion without controversie. By a person of quality. Licens'd, Decemb. 20th. 1691	Person of quality.	1691 (1691)	Wing N802A; ESTC R217828	6,544	12

for he who loveth God doth love his Brother also 1 John 4.20.21 For Man is the representative of God's Spirit and God in Trinity doth dwell in Man who never was nor can Personally be seen Transacting in any thing but by and through Christ Angels or Men therefore it is said in the 1 Thes 4.8 Whosoever despiseth Man despiseth not Man but God For all Mankind are Members of Christ and are created from one and the self same Spirit of God he deviding his Spirit to every Man severally as it pleaseth him 1 Cor. 12.4 11. Or it may be said God transforming his own Spirit into the several shapes of Mankind like himself so that had all Men one Trinitarian Spirit in Perfection as Adam at first had they would all unanimously agree together with one Spirit in Life Love and Wisdom as one Man after the likeness of God and live according to his Will and Pleasure But by Adam's destroying himself and Posterity Christ's Lamb's Spirit in love to God it hath brought variance and strife into the World for want of the true Light of Christ's Spirit of Love which is the light of the World to regulate them For without which their Spirits will be no more fit for Heaven than the Spirit of Devils who have only the Spirit of Life without Love or Wisdom Therefore God of his mercy and compassion to Mankind did from the beginning spread forth his Commandments into all the hearts of Men and in a more particular manner by express word to his Elect that they should be unanimous in keeping those Commandments whereby to increase and inflame their Spirits in Love of God and one another to become one as God and Christ are one and to live a peaceable quiet heavenly life on Earth as if they were even in Heaven It being the main end for which Religion was propagated to restore Man to the first Purity of his Father Adam So that all Religion thro' the Commands of God and the President and Precept of Christ by Scripture wherein lies Man's Service to God are but to admonish put and keep us in mind of our strict Obedience and Duty toward God and toward Man that Man may recover the lost Spirit of Christ to become the perfect Image and Likeness of God as at his first Creation thereby to redeem him from the Captivity of Satan who was the Original cause of Loves Destruction in Man to Entail Man unto himself to become like himself who hath no Love at all in his Spirit to God or Man Therefore the true Visible Church is only to be found in Legal Places of Worship where God hath Recorded his Name by Magistrates with the Supreme Power in Love and Unity for without the Consent of the Magistrates and Supreme Power in Love and Unity For without the consent of Magistrates and Sumpreme Powers God doth not record his Name any where for wheresoever he who is called Love doth Record his Name it must be done with Love and not in opposition to Love It being said by God Exo. 20.24 In all places where I Record my Name I will come unto them and I will bless them Therefore God's Blessing cannot be expected in that Assembly or Congregation where he doth not record his Name that destroys his Spirit of Love by being in opposition to the legal Power of Magistrates as all Religions do act against the Legal Power that are in England excepting the Church of England where only decent Order with necessary Ornaments and Cetemonies are used without any Superstition and that hath kept it self in Purity throughout all Sufferings from the Apostles time the nearest the Scripture Rule and Method and the clearest from any breach of God's and Man's Laws whose Doctrine tends chiefly for the incitement to the love of God and Man thro' obedience to their Commands with Praying Preaching and Teaching in a known Tongue for the Edification of all Men good and bad and for living with each other in Unity Peace and Quietness following Peace with all Men and Holiness without which no man shall see the Lord. Yet for all which undeniable Truth there are those who extreamly vary therefrom under pretence of being Christ's Vicar or Vicegerent on Earth do contrary to his President and Precept usurp to themselves the Temporal and Spiritual Power over all Christian Emperors Kings and Princes and Bishops excommunicating and dethroning them with absolving Subjects from their Oath of Allegiance and Cursing all that believe not in their Erroneous Principles of Faith whereas from the beginning it was not so throughout all the Patriarchs unto Moses who was the Supream Head over God's High-Priest and to whom the decent Order of Religion was first Ordained by God himself for the unanimous Government of his Select People till Christ who assumed no such power unto himself nor gave any President or Precept for it to any one else throughout all the Scripture nor also St. Peter from whence they derive their main Authority who desires for the Lords sake to submit your selves to the King the Supreme Head and to fear God and honour the King 1 Pet. 2.13 17. whose Doctrine they have converted to the making Kings and Princes fear and honour them and are in direct opposition to the Fundamental Principle of Religion Christs Spirit in love to God and Man and the designed intention thereof to follow Peace with all Men by gaining preserving nourishing and increasing the said Love toward God and toward Man whereby Christ's Spirit may reign upon Earth in Love and Unity Peace and Quietness that Gods Will may be done in Earth as it is in Heaven And there are others who run whoreing after their own inventions to find out the Purity of Religion one for Paul another for Apolos and that makes all places alike for the Service of God and that pretends to obey God rather than Man although the Duty towards God doth chiefly consist in the Duty towards Man These he they who separate themselves Sensual having not the Spirit Jude 19. who have a Form of Godliness but denying the Power thereof ever learning but never able to come to the knowledge of the Truth 2 Tim. 3.5 7. who are all gone astray from Christs Spirit of Love the Light that enlightneth the World which must lead all into Unity of Religion before the end thereof For the Spirit of Christ's Love is the White-stone in Rev. 2.17 which no Man knoweth saving he that receiveth it that is when it ariseth and is received in Man he will know and find in himself an unexpressible Joy far above all worldly Affections with extraordinary great Delight and Pleasure in the contemplation of Heaven and in the service and love to God more than to the World And it is the Corner-stone from whence the Structure of the true Religion must be derived and it is also the only true Test to prove the Spirits of all Men and all Religions whether they be good or