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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.
11. Yet interest and temptations will prevail with too many of the sufferers to connive at the bitterness and alienation of the people, (if not to countenance it,) which they do not justify: And so the rupture will grow still greater.
11. Yet interest and temptations will prevail with too many of the sufferers to connive at the bitterness and alienation of the people, (if not to countenance it,) which they do not justifie: And so the rupture will grow still greater.
12. And all men have some Pride: And Godliness being the best thing may become the object of Pride as well as Knowledge and Power. And so many will affect to have their Piety Conspicuous, and therefore to be singular or of some small party that is eminent; and so by separation to stand at a more conspicuous distance from the vulgar sort of Christians, than Christ would have them: And so many a good man hath more of Pride in his profession and separation than he is aware of.
13. And because Gods word, and his last judgement, and Heaven and Hell, do make so great a difference between the Godly and ungodly, it occasioneth many to think that they must difference men by their own censures and separations farther than indeed they ought.