Baxter - BV649 B3 1670

400 fQr, the.c.osnit7g of. theWie(lìáh,bu,t wh:.n he-carne, they knew:bia-knot, but ,crucified him as.a de- ceiver and, ixlaflphemer ; their prejudice 'fixing them in the dungeon of unbelief. M4. 3. x a,3. The Lardwhomye leekfl,allfeaddenlycome tohis Tern- pit; even the, Nferager o f.the Covenant zrhom ye de' liOt in .-- Mat who may abide the day of his coming, and who (1;44anil when he appeareth. For he is like a refinersfire, "and likefallen fope : and loe fhall fit as 4refatier, andpurifier offilver, and hef%all purifie the fcràs of Levi --. :, What abundance of the zealous hcnourers of Trzath are daily employed in revi- ling and.cóntradiaing it ? As thcy do by.Peace,e- ven profecure it to the death,bY the moil pei verfe QppoGtionç, and unpeaceable principles and pra- etifes, while they cry up nothing more than Peace ? And do ,they deal any better by Floli-; nefs it fell. He that is for. a Flolir>>-es , which ccniilleth not in Love to Gcd and man, ( to God for himfeif and to Man for hisfake ) is like the Heathens who are zealo;ls for a Gód; but he rn,:ft be madecf fotrethirìq unlikeft to him that is God indeed :: Or like the Mahometans, who, are zealous Muf%ímans or believers ; but it is in the mcft grofs deceiver. And he that will pro- mote Love by.fr?arling and barking at all that are tirangers to him, and not of h's own houfe, fhall ai l& partake of the fl iiits offuchLove as he pro- moted : And he may as wifely hope at I& to bring the Church to 1'iw.e aifo, by wcrryir.z, it, by fpleretick cenfures and div±fions,in u,aefpightof the experience-of our l=refent age, and of all .tre world. What -eNcr is dot e againfi L0VE is done <<a:t:fi'll' rt,'t;çs and agáina Gcd, and agaii.ft tre

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