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An answer to Mr. Dodwell and Dr. Sherlock, confuting an universal humane church-supremacy aristocratical…An answer to Mr. Dodwell and Dr. Sherlocke, confuting an universal humane church-supremacy aristocratical…
An answer to Mr. Dodwell and Dr. Sherlock, confuting an universal humane church-supremacy aristocratical and monarchical, as church-tyranny and popery : and defending Dr. Isaac Barrow's treatise against it by Richard Baxter ; preparatory to a fuller treatise against such an universal sovereignty as contrary to reason, Christianity, the Protestant profession, and the Church of England, though the corrupters usurp that title.An answer to Mr. Dodwell and Dr. Sherlocke, confuting an universal humane church-supremacy aristocratical and monarchical, as church-tyranny and popery : and defending Dr. Isaac Barrow's treatise against it by Richard Baxter ; preparatory to a fuller treatise against such an universal soveraignty as contrary to reason, Christianity, the Protestant profession, and the Church of England, though the corrupters usurp that title.
London: printed for Thomas Parkhurst, 1682
Chapter 5: Wherein Mr. Dodwell's deceits, and the danger of them do consist.
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1. It must be pre-supposed, That no perfect Concord will be had on earth; yea▪ that there will unavoidably be very many differences, which must be born. So great is the diversity of mens natural Capacity and Temper, their Education, Company, Teachers, Helps, Interests, Callings, Temptations, &c. that it is not probable that any Two men in all the world, are ⟨p. 123⟩in every particular of the same mind: And every man that groweth in knowledge, will more and more differ from himself, and not be of the same mind as he was when he knew less.
1. It must be pre-supposed, That no perfect Concord will be had on earth; yea▪ that there will unavoidably be very many differences, which must be born. So great is the diversity of mens natural Capacity and Temper, their Education, Company, Teachers, Helps, Interests, Callings, Temptations, &c. that it is not probable that any Two men in all the world, are ⟨p. 123⟩in every particular of the same mind: And every man that groweth in knowledg, will more and more differ from himself, and not be of the same mind as he was when he knew less.
2. Yet must our increase in knowledge, and Concord, be our continual endeavour; and it is the use of teaching to bring these differences, caused by ignorance, to as small a number as we can.
2. Yet must our increase in knowledg, and Concord, be our continual endeavour; and it is the use of teaching to bring these differences, caused by ignorance, to as small a number as we can.