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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.
5. And fear of all the after miseries. All hitherto mentioned, men do themselves against themselves.
§. 17. Yea more, men themselves make other men their tormentors. The angry stir up others to hurt them. The offenders stir up Magistrates to punish them. The fornicator chooseth a filthy disease under the name of a pleasure, and kindleth a putrid fever in his own soul. The covetous and unjust make all men their enemies; and so do many of the proud, tyrannical and oppressors. The froward will not give themselves rest in their own families; but make Wives, Husbands, Children, Servants, and every thing to be their own vexation. And O what work do bloody Tyrants by Wars and persecution make to themselves and others in the world? and what Calamities doth miserable mankind bring, by folly and wickedness, on themselves?
§. 17. Yea more, men themselves make other men their tormentors. The angry stir up others to hurt them. The offenders stir up Magistrates to punish them. The fornicator chooseth a filthy disease under the name of a pleasure, and kindleth a putrid fevor in his own soul. The covetous and unjust make all men their enemies; and so do many of the proud, tyrannical and oppressours. The froward will not give themselves rest in their own families; but make Wives, Husbands, Children, Servants, and every thing to be their own vexation. And O what work do bloody Tyrants by Wars and persecution make to themselves and others in the world? and what Calamities doth miserable mankind bring, by folly and wickedness, on themselves?
§. 18. In a word, shall we not believe that there is a Hell, and know much of the nature of it; when we see a Hell already begun on earth? and the whole world walloweth in folly, filth, impiety, and woe? As Heaven is known here by its first-fruits of the spirit, so Hell may be (I think) more known by its beginning, as more notorious. Men are almost Devils already: conceive them but all turned fully into Devils by themselves (and not by God) and you will know much of Hell.