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Catholic unity, or, The only way to bring us all to be of one…Catholick vnity, or, The only way to bring us all to be of one…
Catholic unity, or, The only way to bring us all to be of one religion by Rich. Baxter.Catholick vnity, or, The only way to bring us all to be of one religion by Rich. Baxter.
London: printed by R. W. for Thomas Underhill and Francis Tyton, 1660
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.
6. Some sects are meek and temperate in their way. But the ungodly are carried on with fury and malice, against the whole body of the Holy Catholic Church.
6. Some sects are meek and temperate in their way. But the ungodly are carried on with fury and malice, against the whole body of the Holy Catholick Church.
7. And some Heretics are so thin and few, that where we have one of them to do hurt, we have an hundred or a thousand to contradict them. But the unsanctified and ungodly are the greater number, and think they should rule because they are the most; and the flock of Christ is a little flock. And so many thousands swarming all over the world, and making up the far greatest part of the world ⟨p. 77⟩is like to do more against truth and peace, then here and there a poor Sectary in a corner.
7. And some Hereticks are so thin and few, that where we have one of them to do hurt, we have an hundred or a thous•nd to contradict them. But the unsanctified and ungodly are the greater number, and think they should rule because they are the most; and the flock of Christ is a little flock. And so many thousands swarming all over the world, and making up the far greatest part of the world ⟨p. 77⟩is like to do more against truth and peace, then here and there a poor Sectary in a corner.
8. And lastly, the errors of some others are easier cured: but the whole nature of the ungodly is turned as it were into error; it is rooted so at the heart, that no power on earth is able to cure it, till God Almighty by insuperable light and life of grace will do the cure.