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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. Were it not a misery to be deceived with a thousand errors, and to take evil for good, and good for evil: and to spend ones days in bewildering perplexities or fal•e conceits? How much more to be mistaken about God, and things of greatest excellency and consequence?
4. Were it not a misery to be deceived with a thousand errours, and to take evil for good, and good for evil: and to spend ones dayes in bewildring perplexities or fal•e conceits? How much more to be mistaken about God, and things of greatest excellency and consequence?
5. Were it not a misery to have a Will that is perversely set against the wills of all our Governors and dearest friends? That must needs have and do whatsoever is forbidden us by the greatest, wisest and best of men? How much more, to have a Will that is thus set against the will of God?
5. Were it not a misery to have a Will that is perversely set against the wills of all our Governours and dearest friends? That must needs have and do whatsoever is forbidden us by the greatest, wisest and best of men? How much more, to have a Will that is thus set against the will of God?
6. It is a misery to have a violent Appetite after that which cannot be had, or cannot satisfy. To have vehement hunger and thirst without meat or drink, &c. Wicked men have such a diseased appetite after things that God told them would neither be satisfactory nor continuing. All this and more is in sin it self, in the Habits or Nature, which God never made.