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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.
8. Godliness being against a worldly mind and interest, and the Rabble usually for it, hence ariseth a Conspiracy of carnal Clergy-men, and the Rabble, against those that are most seriously Godly, as if they were their enemies, and a surly, proud, intractable sort of people. As Sulpitius Severus describeth Ithacius and his followers, (and even Mr. Hooker out of him Eccl. Pol. Praefat.)
8. Godliness being against a worldly mind and interest, and the Rabble usually for it, hence ariseth a Conspiracy of carnal Clergie-men, and the Rabble, against those that are most seriously Godly, as if they were their enemies, and a surly, proud, intractable sort of people. As Sulpitius Severus describeth Ithacius and his followers, (and even Mr. Hooker out of him Eccl. Pol. Praefat.)
9. Such men in Power never want flatterers at their ears, to praise all that they do, and to exasperate them by slandering and reviling sufferers.
10. The long possession (since the days of Constantine) of Great Places and Power by the Clergy, within the Roman Empire (now the Greek and Latin Churches,) doth seem to justify mens Usurpations and Tyranny, and make all dissenters seem singular and Schismatical, (which was and is the Papal strength against the Reformed.)
10. The long possession (since the dayes of Constantine) of Great Places and Power by the Clergie, within the Roman Empire (now the Greek and Latine Churches,) doth seem to justifie mens Usurpations and Tyranny, and make all dissenters seem singular and Schismatical, (which was and is the Papal strength against the Reformed.)