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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.
2. Their Disaffection and malignity depriveth them of all that holy Joy, and unvaluable sweetness, which cometh in by the exercise of the Love of God; And of all the pleasures of a holy life. As a sick stomach doth loath a feast, and a malicious man hath not the pleasures of friendship: so how can that soul delight in God that Loveth him not?
3. Unbelief and distrust deprive the soul of all that quietness and content, which followeth faith and confidence in God.
4. A Rebellious will doth lose all that Rest which the obedient find in pleasing God, and in his blessed will.
5. Luxury and carnality and all sin deprive the soul of the pleasures of temperance, chastity, innocency, and a good and quiet conscience.