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Church-history of the government of bishops and their councils abbreviated including the chief part…
Church-history of the government of bishops and their councils abbreviated including the chief part of the government of Christian princes and popes, and a true account of the most troubling controversies and heresies till the Reformation ... / by Richard Baxter ...
London: printed by B. Griffin for Thomas Simmons, 1680
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.
VIII. When the reporter is manifestly a proud, worldly, wicked, unconscionable man, especially of a bloody hurtful disposition: For as Gods threefold Influence, or the Understanding, Will and Life is but one, so the Devil doth usually vitiate together the Understanding, Will and Life; and he that is from the beginning an Enemy, and a Murderer, is also a Liar: Though a wicked, malignant, and cruel man, may yet have an opinionative faith and knowledge, and preach the truth, when it is for his carnal interest; yet when his malice and interest tempteth him against it, there is no trusting his word.
VIII. When the reporter is manifestly a proud, worldly, wicked, unconscionable man, especially of a bloody hurtful disposition: For as Gods threefold Influence, or the Vnderstanding, Will and Life is but one, so the Devil doth usually vitiate together the Vnderstanding, Will and Life; and he that is from the beginning an Enemy, and a Murderer, is also a Lyar: Though a wicked, malignant, and cruel man, may yet have an opinionative faith and knowledge, and preach the truth, when it is for his carnal interest; yet when his malice and interest tempteth him against it, there is no trusting his word.
IX. When an ignorant proud man thinketh that he must be believed merely for the reverence and authority of his place.
IX. When an ignorant proud man thinketh that he must be believed meerly for the reverence and authority of his place.
X. When the reporter liveth in a time and place where carnal interest hath got the major Vote for falsehood, and it passeth commonly for truth, especially where Tyranny, Civil or Ecclesiastical, silenceth the truth in Press, Pulpit, and Discourse, that it dare not be spoken; by which the Papists have not only made their own writings and reports incredible, but by their Indices Expurgatorios, and base corrupting of ancient Writers, have weakened our certainty of much of the old History and Fathers.