Oliver Cromwell

This is from "To Honour God: The Spirituality of Oliver Cromwell". I thought it was good enough to post up here. :) Enjoy!

London, March 20, 1653

"Do we thankfully acknowledge our mercy in the liberty of worshipping God in holiness and righteousness without fear, being delivered out of the hands of our enemies?
Is brotherly love, and a healing spirit of that force and value amongst us that it ought?
Do we own one another more for the grace of God and for the spiritual regeneration, and for the image of Christ in each other, or for our agreement with each other in this or that form, or opinion?
Do we first search for the Kingdom of Christ within us, before we seek one without us? Or do we listen to them that say concerning the coming of Christ, Lo here, and lo there?
Do we not more contend for saints having rule in the world, than over their own hearts?
Are there not too many amongst us that cry up the Spirit, with a neglect of love, joy, peace, meekness, patience, goodness, temperance, long-suffering, forbearance, brotherly kindness, charity, which are the fruits of the Spirit? How do we carry our selves, not only to the Churches of God, and the saints, but towards them that are without?
Do not some of us affirm our selves to be the only true ministry, and true Churches of Christ, and only to have the ordinances in purity, excluding our brethren, though of equal gifts, and having as large a seal of their ministry, and desiring with as much fervor and zeal to enjoy the ordinances in their utmost purity?
Do we remember old Puritan, or rather primitive simplicity, self-denial, mercy to the poor, uprightness, and justice? Or are we not herein put to shame by those we easily call anti-Christian or carnal?
Hath one that we judge to be without, equal justice with one we will call a brother?
Do we contend for the faith once delivered unto the saints, as the things of faith ought to be contended for, with love, patience, tenderness, zeal, by persuasion? Or rather imposingly, proudly, carnally, provokingly, sensually, thereby prejudicing the truth and, whilst we are calling aloud for the propagating of the Gospel, do we not put stumbling-blocks in the way of the same, and too much endanger to make good the slander of the world in charging profession with faction?"