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A vvay unto true Christian unitie the worship of God in spirit and in truth : together vvith many spirituall benefits therein received now in this life and everlastingly ...
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Reeve, Edmund, d. 1660.
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if any difference doth chance will it not soon be composed when as none seeketh his owne honour or by-respects but only the honour and glory of God None the doing of his owne will and mind but only the doing of Gods i Deut. 29.29 Acts. 13.22 Joh. 1.12 13. 1 Pet. 4.1 2. Mat. 3.15 Col. 1.25 revealed will in every thing Such fellow-servants will still remember What is enjoyned by the Gospel where it is said k Gal. 6.1 2. See Phil. 2.1 2 3. Brethren if any man be overtaken in a fault ye which are spirituall restore such a one in the spirit of meeknesse considering thy self lest thou also be tempted Beare ye one anothers burdens and so fulfill the Law of Christ Now heare some causes why such difference is among some zealous persons And the saying is That when causes do cease the effects will cease more and more It is a great cause of difference where there is minded but l 1 Cor. 13.4 5 6 7 8. Causes of difference among many religious persons The first mentioned cause part of Christs Gospel and not the whole Many onely mind what Christ hath done for us but nothing or very little what he m Mat. 23.23 Micah 6.8 Rom. 8.12 13. Mat. 5.20 Rom. 8.4 Luke 13.3 5. Mat. 18.3 Luk. 14.26 27 33. Job 3.5 6. and 12.24 25 26. requireth to be done by us It is true we ought to learn every particular matter mentioned in any holy Scripture concerning what the Lord Jesus Christ hath done for his Church and to understand the same according to the mind of God But withall we are also to learn every particular duty which is taught in any place of the holy Gospel and with helpe of his holy spirit to strive for to perform every of the same n Joh. 15.14 Saith not Christ Ye are my friends if ye do whatsoever I command you Did he not charge his Ministers to teach all nations for to observe o Mat. 28.20 all things whatsoever he hath commanded Is not he the Prophet to be heard in p Acts. 3.22 23. all things whatsoever he shall say unto us * In all ages there hath bin much unitie among all persons which have aswell minded every duty in life and conversation which the Gospel prescribeth as the matters which it signifieth to bee beleeved It is still observed that there is much unitie among all such as mind aswell what the Gospel teacheth to be done as what is to be believed but among such as mind only points of faith and do neglect the matters concerning life and conversation prescribed therein the discord is much and manifold It is written that the Angel of the Lord said unto the Apostles q Acts. 5.20 Joh. 10.10 and 12.50 Go stand and speak in the Temple to the people all the words of this life Which giveth us to understand that true Christianity for a great part consisteth in matter of life and conversation The Holy Ghost saith r Jam. 1.27 Pure Religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this To visit the fatherlesse and widowes in their affliction and to keepe himself unspotted from the world The * It is in the ancient larger notes called the Geneva ones See 1 Cor. 4.20 Rom. 14.17 Rom. 2.6 7 8 9 10 11 13. 1 Joh. 3.18 19. Geneva note thereon is The true service of God standeth in charity toward our neighbours especially such as need others help as the fatherlesse and widowes and purity of life The parenthesis being left out the sentence is The true service of God standeth in charity toward our Neighbours and purity of life Micah saith Å¿ Micah 6.8 See the marginall reading there also the Geneva Translation of that verse The second mentioned cause of difference Whereas many take no notice of the benefits which the Scripture signifieth that the truly godly doe enjoy now in the body within their soules and mindes hence is it that they hope for no such spirituall blessings now neither endeavour the prescribed preparation for them And so setting not the said spirituall marke before them for to aime thereat to approach neerer and neerer unto it they come not into such a comfortable measure of Christian unity as others doe See Job 22.21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29. And the marginall readings there See 2 Cor. 6.16 17 18. and 27.1 Rev. 2.7 17 26 27 28. and 3.5.12 He hath shewed thee O man what is good and what doth the Lord require of thee but to do justly and to love mercie and to * 1 Cor. 6.17 humble thy self for to walk with thy God Another cause of so much difference is That many bear not in mind the marke at which they should now aime and hope for to attain unto in this life and world For the Apostle signifieth That Godlinesse hath aswell promises benefits and blessings t 1 Tim. 4.8 now to be enjoyed besides what hereafter unto all eternitie And for that those spirituall comforts are not now pressed hard after minds become divided and u Ier. 50.6 Isa 53.6 scattered farre apart If archers go forth to shoote and every one shooteth which way soever he adventureth their arrowes do commonly fall down farre apart but if they all doe aime at one and the same marke then are they all found about the mark though some neerer to it than other It is a mark whereat we should now aime to be joyned * Eph. 2.6 sheweth an high degree in Christian unitie wherunto some of the Ephesians had through Divine grace then attained unto the Lord and so to become one spirit with him as farre forth as he now vouchsafeth unto his servants If then I thou he and innumerable more become so one spirit with him what discord can long continue between us then The neglect therefore of the study of attaining now Union with Gods holy Spirit is a cause of so much variance among many which yet notwithstanding have some good affections and laudable beginnings But all Wordlings bear the mind of x Num. 23.10 Balaam They would willingly die the death of the righteous ones and that their last end be like theirs but whiles they live in bodily health and outward prosperity they are willing to retain within them the spirit of the world and to y Acts 7.51 shut out of their hearts the spirit which is of God They consider not on that saying of the Gospel * If wee would have our soules long to prosper in our bodies let us not now shut out of our soules God the Spirit of heavenly light and of heavenly love Prov. 8.31 If any one have not the spirit of Christ he is none of his Wherefore Solomon signifieth That Christs Spirit now on earth dwelleth in his gardens as it is written a Cant. 8.13 The third mentioned cause of difference which ceasing true Christian concord will daily increase Thou