A26906:1030
The cure of church-divisions, or, Directions for weak Christians to keep them from being…
The cure of church-divisions, or, Directions for weak Christians to keep them from being dividers or troublers of the church with some directions to the pastors how to deal with such Christians / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for Nevil Symmons, 1670
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.
Add also this great and unavoidable cause, that one error leadeth in another: And no man being without some; and every one being generative, and inferring more, what will it come to when all those also shall have their off-spring? and the further they go, the more they will increase and multiply?
Add also this great and unavoidable cause, that one errour leadeth in another: And no man being without some; and every one being generative, and inferring more, what will it come to when all those also shall have their off-spring? and the further they go, the more they will increase and multiply?
And as the judgement by one is laid open to another (even as truth inferreth truth) so the will is engaged, and espouseth mens own opinions as their interest; which maketh them stretch their w•ts in study to maintain what once they have received and asserted: And alas how often have I ⟨p. 357⟩heard wise and reverend persons cry out against this pride and partiality in others, who in their next discourse or the same, have shamefully showed it in themselves: making much of their own inconsiderable reasonings, and vilifying cogent evidence against them; and being so intent on their own inventions and cause, that they could scarce have patience to hear another speak; And when they have heard him, their first words show, that they never well weighed the strength of his arguments, but were all the while thinking what to say against him, or how to go on as they had begun.
And as the judgement by one is laid open to another (even as truth inferreth truth) so the will is engaged, and espouseth mens own opinions as their interest; which maketh them stretch their w•ts in study to maintain what once they have received and asserted: And alas how often have I ⟨p. 357⟩heard wise and reverend persons cry out against this pride and partiality in others, who in their next discourse or the same, have shamefully shewed it in themselves: making much of their own inconsiderable reasonings, and vilifying cogent evidence against them; and being so intent on their own inventions and cause, that they could scarce have patience to hear another speak; And when they have heard him, their first words shew, that they never well weighed the strength of his arguments, but were all the while thinking what to say against him, or how to go on as they had begun.