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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.
P. They that know me but half as well as I know my self, will know that I have enough to abase me before God and man: But will that warrant a course of lying and backbiting in others? Do you partly receive, and partly make and propagate false reports, and then plead the Commonness for your excuse? He that set London on fire might so have excused himself because the flame was common when he had caused it. The effect and prospering of your sin should humble you, and not seem to justify you. But yet I must tell you that Backbiting Sectaries are not the greater part of London: There are many sober people that are ashamed of your sin and folly. I will make this friendly motion to you: Instead of backbiting, Let us here to one another's faces, so friendly admonish each other of that which we take to be sin, as may help to bring each other to repentance: And do you begin, Tell me of all the evil that you know by me.
P. They that know me but half as well as I know my self, will know that I have enough to abase me before God and man: But will that warrant a course of lying and backbiting in others? Do you partly receive, and partly make and propagate false reports, and then plead the Commonness for your excuse? He that set London on fire might so have excused himself because the flame was common when he had caused it. The effect and prospering of your sin should humble you, and not seem to justifie you. But yet I must tell you that Backbiting Sectaries are not the greater part of London: There are many sober people that are ashamed of your sin and folly. I will make this friendly motion to you: Instead of backbiting, Let us here to one anothers faces, so friendly admonish each other of that which we take to be sin, as may help to bring each other to repentance: And do you begin, Tell me of all the evil that you know by me.
S. I have nothing to accuse you of, but that your Principles are too large, and you vent them too freely, and thereby you harden Papists, and dishonour the Protestant cause, and wrong free grace, and the Righteousness of Christ, by your doctrine of Justification and mans Righteousness; And by coming so near Conformity, you grieve the hearts of good people, and may bring persecution on those that cannot do as you can.