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A64822	The new command renew'd, or, Love one another being an endeavour after the unity of the spirit in the bond of peace, by several uniting principles, among which there are ten rules for a right understanding of scripture, very useful for these divided times / by Ralph Venning.	Venning, Ralph, 1621?-1674.	1652 (1652)	Wing V214; ESTC R3161	28,675	54

things will they not think that the original contains the same Ah Beloved why do you bring up an evill report upon the Lord Iesus When the streams are bitter will any think the fountain sweet The Academicks the Peripateticks the Stoicks and Epicureans and all the sects of the Philosophers were more careful to follow their leaders then Christians are to follow Christ But as Alexander said to a cowardly souldier of his called Alexander Leave off thy name or fight better never call your selves Christians and pretend to walk as you have Christ for an example unlesse men may read that in you which was read in Christ viz. love The third provoking Argument Thirdly Love is debt You owe love * 3 Argument Aut hoe non est Evangelium aut nos non sumus Evangelici and should owe nothing else to one another Christians will ye not be honest men and pay your debt Rom. 13.8 9 10. when you love one another you fulfil the Law and pay your debt Is it not strange that Christians should be such Antinomians this is Christs Law Love one another now you are Antinomians if ye love not one another certainly a man that is for love is no Antinomian for the Law is fulfilled in this one word viz. Love Look to it Christians you will never be out of the danger of being arrested one by another till you pay your debt and love one another The fourth provoking Argument Fourthly 4 Argument Your union and communion one with another your loving one of another will remove the scandals which your divisions bring upon the truth of God There is no such stumbling block which causeth the world to wave the way of God as the division of Saints It is bad like saith the World that they can teach us the truth when they cannot agree about it themselves Blessed God! what a reproach is this Oh that this should be published in Askalon and spoken in Gath Christians would it not make you blush if you should hear poor souls as I have heard the Lord knows with a sorry heart come and tell you that there is nothing keeps them so much in doubt nothing fills them so full of fears as the division of Saints Alas saith a poore soule my soule is in a strait betweene two and what to do I know not one tels me this is Scylla another tels me that 's Charybdis one tells me that in that way there is a Lion another tells me that if I leane on that wall a Serpent will bite me and this saith the poore soule even rends my heart to pieces Ah Christians let the sighing of these poore Babes and Infants soules prevaile with you yea let them who as yet are unborne being not new-borne see your sweet and loving conversation that they may be won by it The fifth provoking Argument Fifthly 5 Argument Your living in love will midwife into the World that long lookt and longed for man-child of Reformation with which we travel in birth to this very day Alas we are like Jacob and Esau strugling in the wombe for priority and Eldership and so prove our selves foolish children by standing in the way of breaking forth Every body cries out where is the Reformation you promised us a Reformation ah will ye not lay it to heart undoubtedly had you not fallen out about the way you had come to your journeys end long since Nothing retards and hinders publick motion so much as division when one goes this way another that 'T is spoken to the everlasting praise of Israel Judg. 18.1 they were gathered together as one man And ver 8. All the people arose as one man So Ezra 3.1 The people gathered together as one man Nehe. 8.1 And all the people gathered together as one man Had they been divided how had the work gone on Christians shall Israel in the flesh be as one man and shall not Israel in the spirit were they so zealous for the Type and shall not we for the Antitype yea for the shadow and shall not we for the body as you love publick settlement and safety love one another The sixth provoking Argument 6. Union and love will preserve you 6 Argument but division and envy will be your ruine Gal. 5.15 But if yee bite and devoure one another take heed ye be not consumed one of another What! are Christians become like Milstones which having no grise to grinde set themselves on fire that the World should hate you and seek your ruine is no wonder but that your selves should hate one another 't is monstrous Was it ever known that any hated his owne flesh you are flesh of flesh and bone of bone yea of one spirit with Jesus Christ Oh if you were but sensible how sensible Jesus Christ is hereof Think ye that it paines him not to have his members thus disjoynted surely he cries out I am wounded yea my friends wound me What! Brethren sheath their Swords in each others bowels Will ye bring that ruine upon your selves which the Divel and his agents have attempted but in vaine Will ye pull our one anothers eyes to make the Philistius sport Ah take heede lest whilst you fall out among your selves a common enemy fall in upon you and end the controversy by both your ends Surely the World hug themselves in these hopes and the Saints shrugge for these feares When Agamemnon and Achilles were fallen out Homer brings in Nestor perswading them to reconciliation from these two arguments 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Alas great sadnesse will the Greekes possesse Priams and Trojans joy will be no lesse The World wisheth of you as Tacitus of the Germans if this people cannot love us that they would hate one another And will you give them their hearts desire must it againe be said Thy perdition is of thy self Oh Israel Oh England 'T is said of the stone Scyrus that while it is whole it swims on the water but being broken it sinkes Christians there is yet hope that being whole and united in love we may swim above all the waters that flow in upon us like mighty flouds but if we breake and divide we are like to sinke every Womans child of us Many other Arguments may be used but I hope a few words will be enough to the wise onely these three to conclude with First The Beasts of the field are not onely at peace with us but at peace among themselves they especially who are of the same kinde agree together Saevis futer se convenit ursis the wilde and savage Beares agree among themselves What shall the Lion lye downe with the Lambe and the Leopard with the Kid to teach Saints the way the Oxe and the Asse have more knowledge then my people said God of Israel and may we not say of the Elephants and Stags they have more love then Christians they will help and support one another but Christians Secondly wicked men Brethren in iniquity agree together Luk. 23.12 Look to it Christians That very same day Pilate and Herod were made friends together who before were at enmity among themselves Can ye reade this and not blush That very day that Christ was to be abased enemies became friends and at this day when Christ is to be advanced friends become enemies Christians where are your hearts Thirdly The Devills agree among themselves and as I may say love one another though it be but a devilish love Mar. 5.3 from v. 23. to 27. mark it I beseech you They will not cast out one another Do the Devills love their Kingdome so well that they will not divide it and do ye love ours so ill as to divide it and breake it will it not be bitterness in the latter end Mat. 2.45 they go and call one another and take possession and dwell there What can Devills dwell together and cannot Christians Oh! with what bleeding hearts should we think of this that the children of Hell should be wiser in their Generations then the children of Heaven I shall conclude with that Scripture Phil. 2. If therefore there be any consolation in Christ if any comfort of love if any fellowship of the spirit if any bowels and mercies fulfil ye my joy that ye be like-minded having the same love being of one accord of one minde Let nothing be done through strife or vain glory but in lowlinesse of minde let each esteeme other better then himselfe looke not every man on his owne things but every man also on the things of others Let this minde be in you which was also in Christ Jesus Christians I would I were able to expresse my self with more affection in beseeching you to love one another I beseech you yea with beseechings I beseech you love one another Could I but paint out before you the pantings of my heart and set sighes before your sight and draw a draught of the groans which these considerations draw from my heart But All I will or can say is love love love The love of God and the God of love constrain you to love one another that it may at last be said of Christians as it was at first behold how they love one another FINIS

appears in him draw thine heart more towards him then that of flesh which appears take off thine heart from him We many times take notice of that which will divide and not of that which will unite A small errour was soon espied in certain pictures of Apelles when a thousand excellent touches were not at all observed One houre of Eclipse causeth the Sun to be more gazed on then a thousand faire days Those souldiers who followed Caesars triumph published his vices but concealed his vertues But dear Christians let us rather say one to another as Queen Elizabeth said to the Lord Burleigh sit down my Lord we make much of you not for your bad leg but for your good Head Let us make much of each other and sit down together not because there is badnesse in the feet but because there is goodnesse in the head and heart The fourth Principle 4. Principle censure ●●t intentions Censure no mans intention till his practice either words or works discover his meaning Many times by their fears jealousies and suspitions men create that in their hearts which had never a place in the suspected parties imagination Iacob was needlesly troubled and causelesly afraid of his brother Esau when nothing gave him occasion to suspect his brother but his own guilty conscience which told him he did deserve it Iacob fears that he came to execute revenge when he comes to welcome home his brother and entertain him honourably Jealousie is as quick as Martial Law arraignes condemns and executes all in a moment * Mistakes of things ●ause things to be done ●misse Nothing doth more hurt and wrong to friends then jealousies Some cry out of some these men intend nothing but Anarchy and confusion so that shortly there will be no difference of nor respect to persons Others cry out of others these men intend nothing but Lordship and tyranny to encroach all power into their own hand and so to be Masters over our faith and to lord it over the Lords inheritance But why are ye become evil judges of thoughts are you the searchers of hearts you would judge more righteous judgement in this to judge according to appearance The fifth Principle 5. 5. Principle Incense not Do nothing whereby to incense and exasperate one another Provoke one another to love as much as you can but to wrath as little as you may nay not at all 'T is becoming Christians to use soft words and they turn away wrath but many words stir up strife Bitter words are like sharp swords they pierce to the very soule Prov. 15.1 But let others passion provoke your compassion 'T was sweetly said of Calvin concerning Luther Though he call me Devil I will call him Saint Oh that Christians would learn that lesson of Christ When you are reviled revile not again Alas do not men speak bitterly against bitter speaking and write bitterly against bitter writings becoming inexcusable thereby Rom. 2.1 for wherein they judge others they condemn themselves being doers of the same things Oh that Christians would overcome evil with good passion with meeknesse bitternesse with sweetnesse for a soft tongue breaks the bone Prov. 25.15 Oh how did Abigails affection conquer Davids passion though heated seven-fold And how did Davids kindnesse to Saul make Saul confesse his unkindnesse to David However others carry themselves toward us unbecoming Christians our carriage toward them should be no other then is becoming Christians A Publican will love where he finds love and salute when he is saluted but you ab you Christians are to exceed and excell in love to love when you are not loved though the more you love the lesse ye be heloved to speak faire when you are ill-spoken of not to render railing for railing 1 Pet. 3.8 9. but contrariwise blessing knowing that you are thereunto called Christians should be as the Angels 2 Pet. 2.11 which are greater in power and might yet bring no railing accusations before the Lord Michael the Arch-angel disputing with the Devil about the body of Moses durst not bring hearke ye Christians he durst not bring a railing accusation but said The Lord rebuke thee Let us do for the future as Johns disciples did by their Master when Herod slew him Mat. 14.12 they took up the body and buried it and went and told Jesus Let us bury in oblivion all railings and injuries only go and tell Iesus and say Lord rebuke them The sixth Principle 6. 6. Principle Go not about to make one another odious by representing things worse then they are Many times the picture of the Lion is more dreadful then the Lion himself Good Lord in what black ugly and deformed shapes do men set forth one another as if they were Monsters and no men Ah Pudétque referre Haec dici potuisse non potuisse refelli Ah I blush to tell it That I can speak it But cannot refell it Tertullus never strained his Oratory against Paul nor Tobias and Sanballat theirs against Nehemiah more then Christians if at least they be as they are called do strain theirs to bring one another under disrespect and odium The seventh Principle 7. Draw not conclusions from other mens Principles then say they are their opinions 7. Principle We may make the same complaint as David they wrest torture and wrack my words Alas Psal 56.5 men set every thing on the tenter-hooks and stretch and twist every Principle like a nose of wax Alas What pity 't is to see men invert and pervert one anothers words and at length to draw such conclusions as would make one think they meant what they never meant 'T were a good thing to interpret candidly and when a thing will bear a double construction to take it in the best sense But we see by sad experience that Sophistry makes more Syllogismes then Logick doth So some mistook and misreported Paul Rom. 3.8 as if he had said that we might do evil so good might come thereof Mat. 26.61 So the Iews depose that Christ said he would destroy the Temple at Ierusalem in three days and raise it again when he spake of his Body as appears Ioh. 2.21 John 2.21 what words thus wrested and perverted may not be called heresie and as they said of Christs words Blasphemy when if taken as meant and in their proper sense may be found very sound and consonant to truth Take heed therefore of glossing or commenting upon anothers Text. The eighth Principle 8. 8. Principle Do as you would be done to Grant to others what you would have others grant to you We are usually better at receiving then at giving we care not how much we receive nor how little we give though it be more honorable to give then to receive When our selves are inferiours and others superiours we beg as did the servant Matt. 18 26 Have patience a little have a little patience but when our selves are