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| Chapter XLVI.—Let us cleave to the righteous: your strife is pernicious.
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Such examples, therefore, brethren, it is right that we
should follow;201
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Literally, “To such examples it is right that we should
cleave.” | since it is written, “Cleave to the
holy, for those that cleave to them shall [themselves] be made
holy.”202
| 202 Not found
in Scripture. | And again, in another place, [the Scripture]
saith, “With a harmless man thou shalt prove203
thyself harmless, and with an elect man thou shalt be elect, and with a
perverse man thou shalt show204
thyself perverse.”205
Let us cleave,
therefore, to the innocent and righteous, since these are the elect of
God. Why are there strifes, and tumults, and
divisions, and schisms, and wars206
among you? Have we not [all] one God and one
Christ? Is there not one Spirit of grace poured out upon us? And have we
not one calling in Christ?207
Why do we divide and tear to pieces the members of Christ, and
raise up strife against our own body, and have reached such a height of
madness as to forget that “we are members one of
another?”208
Remember the words of our
Lord Jesus Christ, how209
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This clause is wanting in the text. | He said, “Woe to
that man [by whom210
| 210 This
clause is wanting in the text. | offences come]! It were
better for him that he had never been born, than that he should cast a
stumbling-block before one of my elect. Yea, it were better for him that
a millstone should be
hung about [his neck], and he should be
sunk in the depths of the sea, than that he should cast a stumbling-block
before one of my little ones.”211
Your schism has subverted
[the faith of] many, has discouraged many, has given rise to doubt in
many, and has caused grief to us all. And still your sedition
continueth.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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