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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.
III. And did men but LOVE their neighbours as themselves, and were as easily persuaded to think well of, and deal gently with their neighbours as themselves, and as hardly drawn to condemn, hate, hurt or injure them, I need not tell you how easily, quickly and universally we should be healed.
III. And did men but LOVE their neighbours as themselves, and were as easily perswaded to think well of, and deal gently with their neighbours as themselves, and as hardly drawn to condemn, hate, hurt or injure them, I need not tell you how easily, quickly and universally we should be healed.
But before I speak of the Instrumental Means, I will fuller open the three forementioned Causes.
But before I speak of the Instrumental Means, I will fullier open the three forementioned Causes.
I. Religious Clergy-TYRANNY hath so notoriously, so long, and so greatly made havoc both of Piety, and Peace, that he that is not an utter stranger to Church-History cannot be ignorant of it. I need not tell any Learned man, how many even moderate Papists, much more Protestants have thought, that Constantine and other Emperors that over-exalted the Clergy, poured out Poison into the Church: making great preferments a bait to invite all the worst of men, to be seekers and invaders of Church Offices and Power, and to corrupt those that otherwise would have been useful men: especially when (Christians having first made them their Arbitrators, in obedience to St. Pauls counsel) they were made the Legal Judges of the Causes of all contentious Christians, and so set up Secular Magistratical Courts. I need not tell them what work almost every General Council (as those of one Empire were called) did make! what work even the first at Nice had made, had not Constantine burnt their Bills of accusation against each other, and personally lamented their divisions, and driven them on to peace! what work was made in