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V
a
R.
6,
Ephefanc,
Chap.
4.
fuch
a
Unity
is a
prefident
to
us,
that
we,
though many, lhould be
one:
Father,
I
pray, that
they may
be
one, as we
are
one.
roh.ty.
2.
It doth thew how meet anddecent
it is
for
us ;
wee have one
God,
one
Father, why then doe we
tranfgrcffe one
brother
againft
anothere
Isit
not
an
unfeemly
thing
that
one mans
children,in
a
(range
countrey,thöuld
be falling
out one
with another!
So
with
us,
&c.
This doth
move
us
to
all
equity
and
concord; what
made
lob
fo
lovingly
yeeld even
to
his
fervants, but
this
that one
God
they
had
who
fathioned them
both
in
thewombe. Did
not
.
hee
that
made
mein
the
wombe,
make
himf
mod
did
not
one
fafhion as in the
wombe?
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This therefore
mull further move
us
to
flick
dole
one
to another,
Yfe
r.
like
as
Ruth and Naomi
did,
Ruth.r.
t6.
Whither
thou
goefl,
I
ariagee;
wherethou lodgefl,
I
will lodge: thy
people
/hall
be
my
people,
and
thy God
Ruth
s
'fir
my
God; this was
it
that
tyed
them
fo
lirait
together;
this will be
a
powerfull
motive to
make men
(though
never fo offended) returne in-
to
love.
When
lofephs
brethren fufpelled
his difpleafure,
they make
intreaty this way,
Pardon the trefpaffe
of
the
fervants of
thy
fathers god.
Gento
17.
And when every
one
of
thefe mull move
us
to
agreement, how
much more
alle
A fevenfold
cord
is
not
eafily
broken.
It
is
a foule
fharne
for
us
who
profelfe our
felves
fubjecis
of
the Prince
of
Peace,
to
live at
difcord
one
with another.
Again,
it
doth
teach
us
'that
all
agreement compounded` on other PR
z.
grounds then thefe,
is
no
fpirituall
Union
and will
not ftand. In the
No
worlds
union we
fee
that truly obferved,
that
the greatefi love endeth
not
founded
oft
in
the greateft hatred,
for they build their
concord
on the fand,
and
on
the
unity
of
one
Lord,
therefore
it
is
eafily fhaken.
So
all
politick unions,where thefe grounds
faith fathtr.
are neglet
ed, what are
they,
as
Daniel
fhewes, Chapter
2. 43
.
They
arejoyning ofclay
andyron,which
can never bee fo
compounded, but
the one
will moulder from
the other
eafily:
fuch
a
foder are confedera-
cies
without
thefe motives here expreffed.
Lafly,
though the
Apofle
his
Logick
is
very fruitful'
in
this
point,
yet
the
Papifs
are more plentiful', they have
found out
three more:
oná
othree
a. One
vifible
head.
falfcandfri.
z. One
Sacrifice.
volou,.
3.
External!
rires
every
where
received.
Butthefe
areall
of
them
no
bonds
of
this
Union;
for
Chrifian U-
nity was alwaycs
in
the Church, yet
by Popifh do
&rine
there
was
not
alwayes
one
vifible
head
of
the Univerfall
Church;
for
Aaron
was
head onely
of the
people
of
the
Jewes.
Again,
we reafon hence firongly againft their head
,
whom they
make all
in all
for
Unity,
making this
the
caufe
of
our diffentings and
diverfities,becaufe we have
not one
vifible Head:
For
if
this had been
fuch
a
principal)
ground
of
Unity,
the
Apoflc
would
not here have
omitted
it, but
here
is
not
a
word
ofit,
and
therefore he
knew
no fuch
thing.
They
fay, it
isitnplyed
in
thofe
words,
One
body
andSpirit;
for the obfe#.
unity
of
the body depcndeth
on one
head,
s
f
3
Weee.
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