Baxter - BV649 B3 1670

430 The confcierfce ofour faults, &c. Scriptures and the Chriftian faith ; and that have been the fait and lights of the world, without whom Chrif}ianity never long continued in any nation ; And that have been the chiefinftruments ofbringingall the fouls to Heaven that have p*f- fed thither from the militant Church. (But I have done this in two íheets for the Miniflery long a- go.) So that our faults confiil with the honour of our funtlion, and ofour neceffary labours,and with the praife of the more blarnelefs. And even fo, though the peoples weaknefs,and inclinablenefs to unwarrantable feparations and fchifms, be blameworthy , as a fruit of their in- firmity and injudicioufnefs : Yet mutt we re- member that they are the membersofChriíf, and we muff not deny his interefl in there ; nor judge or ,ufe them hardlier than Chriff himfelf hath done, or alloweth us to do : But Rudy his Love and tendernefs and forbearance, that we may fol- low him in ferving him ; andnot follow our una.. charitable palliions, and call it, a ferving of him ; who liketh no fuch hurtful fervice. He that lo- vethChriff innone ofhis Infants or weaker mere bers, but in the flrong and more prudent fort a- lone, doth love him in fo few , that he maygut- Ilionwhether he loveth him indeed at all; And whether ever he chill hear, Inafmuch as ye did it to the leaff of theft my brethren, ye did it into me. April 14. 1668d

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