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Aphorisms of justification, with their explication annexed wherein also is opened the nature of…Aphorismes of justification, with their explication annexed wherein also is opened the nature of…
Aphorisms of justification, with their explication annexed wherein also is opened the nature of the covenants, satisfaction, righteousness, faith, works, &c. : published especially for the use of the church of Kidderminster in Worcestershire / by their unworthy teacher Ri. Baxter.Aphorismes of justification, with their explication annexed wherein also is opened the nature of the covenants, satisfaction, righteousnesse, faith, works, &c. : published especially for the use of the church of Kederminster in Worcestershire / by their unworthy teacher Ri. Baxter.
Hague: printed by Abraham Brown, 1655
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
And (which is the killing effect of this venom) these Preachers usually teach their people a Christianity suitable to their own Theology, which consisteth in repeating certain words, and forms, and using certain ceremonious actions, and then they are as good Christians as they themselves are Divines.
And (which is the killing effect of this venome) these Preachers usually teach their people a Christianity suitable to their owne Theologie, which consisteth in repeating certaine words, and formes, and using certain ceremonious actions, and then they are as good Christians as they themselves are Divines.
4. And yet were there no miscarriage in our studies, Knowledge could not make that happy progress which some expect: For it is not in studies as it is in Manufactures, that one man may begin where another left; but every man must fetch it from the very principles himself: Neither can we take the words of those that have studied it before us; for that is neither a sound, nor satisfactory knowledge: whence it comes to pass, (saith Pemble Vind. Grat. p. 168.) that while we are busy in examining our forefathers inventions, and posterity employed in trying our examinations, neither we nor they have much time to add any thing for the increase of Learned Knowledge: Whence you may guess at one cause, why many Sciences, for some thousands of years have kept one pitch, and not grown above that dwarfish stature that they had in their infant invention: and also what the reason is that many that read most, prove not the deepest Scholars; for no greater impediment to exact Learning then to make use of other mens understandings, and neglect our own.
4. And yet were there no miscarriage in our studies, Knowledge could not make that happy progresse which some expect: For it is not in studies as it is in Manufactures, that one man may begin where another left; but every man must fetch it from the very principles himselfe: Neither can we take the words of those that have studied it before us; for that is neither a sound, nor satisfactory knowledge: whence it comes to passe, (saith Pemble Vind. Grat. p. 168.) that while wee are busie in examining our forefathers inventions, and posterity imployed in trying our examinations, neither we nor they have much time to adde any thing for the increase of Learned Knowledge: Whence you may guesse at one cause, why many Sciences, for some thousands of yeares have kept one pitch, and not growne above that dwarfish stature that they had in their infant invention: and also what the reason is that many that read most, prove not the deepest Schollers; for no greater impediment to exact Learning then to make use of other mens understandings, and neglect our owne.