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Catholic communion defended against both extremes, and unnecessary division confuted in five parts ...…Catholick communion defended against both extreams, and unnecessary division confuted in five parts ...…
Catholic communion defended against both extremes, and unnecessary division confuted in five parts ... / by Richard Baxter ...Catholick communion defended against both extreams, and unnecessary division confuted in five parts ... / by Richard Baxter ...
London: printed for Tho. Parkhurst, 1684
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.
2. I believe not this, because God is the righteous Governor of the World, and ruleth by means suited to the end: And we find, that the fear of a future positive punishment, is so natural to the Conscience of man, that the World is mostly governed by it: And God ruleth not man by mere deceit.
2. I believe not this, because God is the righteous Governor of the World, and ruleth by means suited to the end: And we find, that the fear of a future positive punishment, is so natural to the Conscience of man, that the World is mostly governed by it: And God ruleth not man by meer deceit.
3. We see that even the fear of Hell is not sufficient to restrain (no, not professed Christians and Preachers) from Perjury, Persecution, Sensuality, Worldliness and Wickedness: What a case then would the World be in, were they delivered from those fears? Men would be worse than Toads, Adders, or mad Dogs to one another.
4. The Philosophers, yea, most (and almost all) the Infidel and Pagan World to this day, were convinced of the Immortality of the Soul: So that even the Lord Herbert, de verit. numbereth it with the Notices of […].
4. The Philosophers, yea, most (and almost all) the Infidel and Pagan World to this day, were convinced of the Immortality of the Soul: So that even the Lord Herbert, de verit. numbereth it with the Notices of 〈…〉.