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Richard Baxter's Catholic theology plain, pure, peaceable, for pacification of the dogmatical word-warriors who,…Richard Baxter's Catholick theologie plain, pure, peaceable, for pacification of the dogmatical word-warriours who,…
Richard Baxter's Catholic theology plain, pure, peaceable, for pacification of the dogmatical word-warriors who, 1. by contending about things unrevealed or not understood, 2. and by taking verbal differences for real,Richard Baxter's Catholick theologie plain, pure, peaceable, for pacification of the dogmatical word-warriours who, 1. by contending about things unrevealed or not understood, 2. and by taking verbal differences for real,
London: printed by Robert White for Nevill Simmons, 1675
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.
14. And nothing here undoeth all the World in point of wisdom, so much as over-hasty judging or prefidence: It is natural to almost all to fasten presently upon the first appearances, and to be confident before they have half tried: In cases where seven and seven years serious study is necessary to a through digested knowledge, every Novice will presently conclude as if he were sure. And then ⟨image 12⟩as every one is apt to be confident, so to be tenacious; every error leading on more, and the reputation of the person being concerned in it, mutability being a shame: And so it becometh a very difficult thing to unlearn the errors once learned; as white Paper is easier written on than that which is written on before.
14. And nothing here undoeth all the World in point of wisdom, so much as over-hasty judging or prefidence: It is natural to almost all to fasten presently upon the first appearances, and to be confident before they have half tryed: In cases where seven and seven years serious study is necessary to a through digested knowledge, every Novice will presently conclude as if he were sure. And then ⟨image 12⟩as every one is apt to be confident, so to be tenacious; every error leading on more, and the reputation of the person being concerned in it, mutability being a shame: And so it becometh a very difficult thing to unlearn the errors once learned; as white Paper is easier written on than that which is written on before.
15. And then no man knoweth his own error (else it were no error), nor knoweth what another mans perceptions are, nor what any other man knoweth more than he.