Charity commended, or, A catholick Christian soberly instructed by J.C.

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Charity commended, or, A catholick Christian soberly instructed by J.C.
Author
Collop, John.
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London :: [s.n.],
1667.
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Catholic Church -- Controversial literature.
Charity -- Early works to 1800.
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"Charity commended, or, A catholick Christian soberly instructed by J.C." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A34014.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 29, 2025.

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Sect. 46. (Book 43)

Preaching brought Religion in, and hath carried it out of the world; some think all Religion in the ears, and none in the hands; to see Christ in the flesh, Jerusalem in her glory, and an Augustine in a Pulpet, was esteem'd a wish of a pious transcndency: may we feel Christ in the spirit; see Jerusa∣lem the holy City of his Church in her glory; whose walls are of precious stones, piety, chastity, meeknesse, and temperancy, &c. adorn'd with all the glories of Celesti∣all virtues, and I could be content without satisfying the itch of my ear, though with a Saint Austine: A Boniface could be a traytor to his Prince; a coal of Hell; an incendiary of mischief, by blowing the flames of contention, and raising a combu∣stion in his Country; yet neither the beams of light, effluxions of piety, streaming from this great luminary; nor the living water issuing from this great Fountain in Gods Church could quench the flames of ambi∣tion, or kindle zeal in his so passonate an Auditor. A master would think that servant distracted, who would desire to hear his will often, and alwaies do his own: yet such is the madnesse of the world, if they

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hear an Embassador from Heaven patient∣ly, though they list themselves to serve the world, flesh, and devill, they oblige God, and unserviceable to these, Heaven must entertain them, when perhaps instead of a Celestiall Embassador, they have onely heard schisms, trumpeter.

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