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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. The inward senses, Imagination and Passions are so constituted as that their inconveniences will be a pain and torment, as well as the inconveniences of the outward senses. 1. Cares and Melancholy thoughts are distracting. 2. Desires breed such care, and are themselves like a thirst or hunger to the soul. 3. Fears are tormenting. 4. Sorrows if deep and long are as a living death. 5. Anger is a vexatious fever of the mind: And revengeful malice and envy do prolong it. 6. Despair anticipateth eternity of misery, &c. 7. And Love it self (how pleasing soever at first) is the strength of them all.
§. 4. The inward senses, Imagination and Passions are so constituted as that their inconveniences will be a pain and torment, as well as the inconveniences of the outward senses. 1. Cares and Melancholy thoughts are distracting. 2. Desires breed such care, and are themselves like a thirst or hunger to the soul. 3. Fears are tormenting. 4. Sorrows if deep and long are as a living death. 5. Anger is a vexatious feaver of the mind: And revengeful malice and envy do prolong it. 6. Despair anticipateth eternity of misery, &c. 7. And Love it self (how pleasing soever at first) is the strength of them all.
§. 5. The superior faculties, as they are more noble, are capable of greater misery; and their corruption and disorder is the worst. To have an ignorant erring mind, that taketh evil for good, and good for evil; To have a carnal, malignant, wicked, obstinate, froward Will and sinful Affections, and by these to have mens actions misguided, and so the sensitive soul it self brought into the foresaid misery, through bad government, is a misery to man in the Nature, and immediate effects of the thing.
§. 5. The superiour faculties, as they are more noble, are capable of greater misery; and their corruption and disorder is the worst. To have an ignorant erring mind, that taketh evil for good, and good for evil; To have a carnal, malignant, wicked, obstinate, froward Will and sinful Affections, and by these to have mens actions misguided, and so the sensitive soul it self brought into the foresaid misery, through bad government, is a misery to man in the Nature, and immediate effects of the thing.