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A Persuasive to Unity, by J. Bancroft with R. Barclay [The Anarchy of the Ranters].
A Persuasive to Unity by J Bancroft with R Barclay - The Anarchy of the Ranters Author:Joseph Bancroft, Robert Barclay General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1877 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: UNIVERSAL LOYE, APPEARING IN AND THROUGH MAN RECONCILED UNTO, AND IN UNITY WITH GOD, CONSIDERED AND TESTIFIED UNTO AS THE GREATEST GIFT OF GOD TO MEN. Universal love is that without which men cannot profitably meet together for the worship of God; neither for the proper and needful exercise of godly care or discipline to the help one of another; nor be joined together in meetings; in which joining of men consists that manifestation of God in the flesh which is the body of Jesus Christ in substance, the Church of the living God: wherein " abideth faith, hope, and charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity." By receiving grace, which is charity, (John iii. 16, 17,) or possessing faith, men understand that the worlds were framed by the "Word of God (Heb. xi. 3), and are drawn to worship Him; by experience in which worship, hope is wrought (Rom. v. 4); and men are thereby drawn to work together for mutual good; which is mutually enjoyed in charity. "Without charity there can be no joining of men in one body of living members (1 Cor. xiii. 2), shewing forth the fullness of the Godhead in joined members, or bodily (as in Jesus Christ of Nazareth); which one body " is the image of the invisible God." It pleased God, about two centuries past, to raise up a people in whom He restored the primitive gospel power and testimonies of the Truth in a remarkable degree and manner; who bore witness thereto in much suffering, and by many sound testimonies in writing given forth for the gaining and instruction of those who spoke against and persecuted them, as not knowing either them or the Truth of...« less