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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.
4. We all know but in part, and as in a glass and darkly: Even the most of Teachers take abundance of things for True and Good that are False and Evil, and for False and Bad which are True and Good; Much more are Godly vulgar people ignorant, and consequently err in many things. Even they that cry out against the vulgar Ignorance, and insufficient Teachers, know far less than they are Ignorant of themselves.
4. We all know but in part, and as in a glass and darkly: Even the most of Teachers take abundance of things for True and Good that are False and Evil, and for False and Bad which are True and Good; Much more are Godly vulgar people ignorant, and consequently erre in many things. Even they that cry out against the vulgar Ignorance, and insufficient Teachers, know far less than they are Ignorant of themselves.
5. He that mistakingly thinks any thing is Good or Bad, Duty or Sin, which is not so, will be zealous in pursuit of his mistake, if he be serious for God: A good principle will hasten him on in a wrong way, whatever it cost him.
6. Ignorance and timorousness cause superstition, which is a conceit that God is pleased by overdoing in external things, and observances and laws of their own making, and so they that make part of their own Religion superstitiously (as most good people do in some things through ignorance,) will censure all others as Good or Bad, by the measure of their own mistakes.
6. Ignorance and timerousness cause superstition, which is a conceit that God is pleased by overdoing in external things, and observances and laws of their own making, and so they that make part of their own Religion superstitiously (as most good people do in some things through ignorance,) will censure all others as Good or Bad, by the measure of their own mistakes.