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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

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

not hinder closing with truth The third Principle 3. When God is sought 3 Principle speak plainly aNd clearly and you begin to discourse deal faithfully as in the presence of God Fit words are better then fine use not policy and sophistry to vaile the truth Do not ye equivocate nor mince your meanings hiding it under dubious termes but propose all things clearly Affect not novelty or nicety of language but speak in known and familiar phrases Many times there 's such a do kept about termes that before the discourse be ended men lose themselves and the question too therefore speak plainly and not in parables * How many 3000 words have these three words cost 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 It 's no little vanity to speak such words as will constrain you to use twenty and sometimes twenty times more to explain what you meant The fourth Principle 4. Be as willing to hear as to speak 4 Principle hear much speak little a man should hear twice as much as he should speak and it seems to be intimated in his having two cares but one tongue Were there in times of discourse more hearers and fewer speakers there would probably be easier and speedier determinations much talk hinders observation and keeps things from being weigh'd A man shall meet with such talkatives as like the beating of an unbrac'd drum are able to beat some men out of their wits at least their patience they are so confusedly busie and so busily confused The fifth Principle 5. 5 Principle weigh what is spoken Weigh not who speaks nor how it is spoken but what is spoken you should not overvalue nor undervalue a truth because ye like or dislike the party or his manner of speaking Sometime according to the Proverb we dandle the child for love of the Nurse and take up an opinion for his sake that brings it * Maldonate said of the explication of a place of Scripture that it was most agreeable to antiquity but because Calvin h●d so interpreted it he would chuse a new one Phil. 4.15 and others refuse an opinion because such a one holds it But Christians consider what you do would a man take poyson though from a Father or refuse a Cordiall though from an enemy It was better said Amicus Plato and Amicus Aristoteles sed magìs amica veritas And the Apostle rejoyced that Christ was preached though they that preacht him did it out of envy and to add to his bonds go from any man to go to truth but go from no truth to go to any man As Christ said the pollution is not from without neither indeed in this sense the purity What is the word the better for being in Pauls mouth or the worse for being in Apollos What is the Heavenly treasure the worse for being brought in an earthen vessell or the better when handed to us by an Angell is the word of Wisdome the better for the Wisdome of words or is truth the lesse beautifull because naked and not arrayed with Sattin words and silken phrases what though a man have neither silver nor gold to give you is not Christ worth the receiving 'T is strange to see how men are led into and led out of opinions meerly by an opinion of the man The Philosopher though he were the same man and of the same minde in his squallid rags could not finde admission when better robes procur'd both an open doore and reverence Boldnesse and readinesse of speech with the most though not with the most judicious bears away the Bell. To go from Aristotle Ipse dixit swaid all though a man go to reason is or had wont to be no small disgrace in the schooles If Herod speak then it is the voyce of God and not of man but if Paul speake then 't is what will this babler say Some cannot heare unlesse a Doctor preach others will not heare if a Doctor preach Surely Christians these things ought not to be so truth should be well-come to us though the Devill the father of lies brought it to us and no hing but truth though an Angel from Heaven be the messenger The sixth Principle 6. 6 Principle custome Christ call'd himself truth not custome Let not custome beare sway for or against an opinion Let not Antiquity or Novelty make you respect or disrespect a truth father truth for truths sake whether old or new Though all truth be old * Old truths may come newly to light God is not tied to time for the gift of Illumination Dr. Hall yet our sight of truth may be new why then should new light be a trouble to some or tradition a burthen to others why should Divine or Orthodox or Orthodox Divine grow out of date or why should not a Gospell-Preacher be in season Some like words and practices because of custome others have no other reason for their dislike Never walk by what hath been done or what is done unles it be what ought to be done Reduce things to their primitive institution and then see what God saith of them Matthew 19.8 as our Saviour told the Pharisees Matth. 19.8 Though Moses for the hardnesse of your hearts suffered you to put away your Wives yet from the beginning it was not so Men do now adayes by opinions as many do by their cloaths some will keep to their great grandfathers habit and fashion others as changeable as the Moone think they are never in fashion unlesse they be ever changing fashions Some cannot like a truth because 't is not of ancient standing others like it because it is of yesterday Some can reverence none but gray-hair'd opinons others like none but youthfull and smoothfac'd ones T is true the * Age. multitude of yeares teacheth wisdome and so may the * Youth few of dayes 't is truth and nothing but the truth and all the truth which should have our esteem whether it be old or young whether the first borne of time or the last The seventh Principle 7. 7 Principle proper Arguments In all discourses and disputations use proper Media or arguments to prove your tenets by bring not Scriptures to your reason but your reason to Scripture or judge reason by reason and Scripture by Scripture Morall arguments are not fit and proper to prove naturall Principles by nor in many things rationall Arguments to prove or disprove Scripture by Prove spirituall things by spirituall Arguments as the Apostle hints to us 1 Cor. 2.13 1 Cor. 2.13 which things also we speak not in the words which mans wisdome teacheth but which the holy Ghost teacheth comparing spirituall things with spirituall or judging spiritualls with spiritualls The Apostle did not borrow words or Arguments from without but fitted spirituall Arguments to prove spiritual things Neverdraw Ecclesiasticall conclusions from Politicall premisses The eighth Principle 8. Discourse not to cavill but to convince 8. Principle cavil not or to be