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by him , for the compassing all these excellent purposes , by their preaching while they lived , and by their writing for ever . And if they fail hereof the reason is not
any insufficiency or invalidity in the means , but the voluntary perverseness of the subjects they have to deal with ; who , if they would be themselves , and be content that others should be , in the choice
of their religion , the servants of God , and not of men ; if they would allow , that the way to heaven is not narrower now , than Christ left it , his yoke no heavier than be made it ; that the belief of no more difficulties is
required now to salvation than was in the primitive church ; that no error is in itself destructive , and exclusive from salvation now , which was not then : if instead of
being zealous Papists , earnest Cal . vinists , rigid Lutherans , they would become themselves , and be content that others should be , plain and honest Christians $ if all men would believe the scripture , and freeing themselves from prejudice and passion , would sincerely endeavour to find the true ' sense of
it , and live according to it , and require no more of others but to do so ; nor denying their communion to any that do so , would so order their public service of God , that all which do so may without scruple , or hypocrisy , or
protestation against any part of it join tvith them in it : Who doth not see that seeing ( as we suppose here , and shall prove hereafter ) all necessary truths are plainly
and evidently set down in scrip , ture , there would of necessity be among all men , in all things necessary , unity of opinion ? and , notwithstanding any other differ *
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eaces that are or could be , unity of communion and charity , and mutual toleration ? by which means all schism and heresy would be banished the world , and
those wretched contentions which now rend and tear in pieces , not the coat , but the members and bowels of Christ—with mutuatpride and tyranny , and cursing , and killing , and damning * would fain
make immortal , should speedil y receive a most blessed catastrophe . But of this hereafter , when we shall come to the question of schism , wherein I persuade my . self that I shall plainly shew that the most vehement accusers are
the greatest offenders , and that they are indeed at this time , the greatest schismaticks who make the way to heaven narrower , the yoke of Christ heavier , the differences of faith greater , the conditions of ecclesiastical communion
harder and stricter , than they were made at the beginning by Christ and his apostles : They who talk of unity but aim at ty « ranny , and will have peace with none but with their slaves and vassals ..
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No . XXIX . Dudling . * Hov > can ye belitvt 9 saitb Christ , who setk honour one of another , and not that honour which u of
God f If these words of Christ be true , that they who too earnestly desire applause and repuUUioa among men , neglecting in the mean time seriously to end eavour the attaining to the honour which
• The fonher part of thl * « t » J * * from the Third Sermon , tfte fet * r from the Sixth ,
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684 Ch illitigworth .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1814, page 684, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2446/page/24/
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