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The defence of the nonconformists plea for peace, or, An account of the matter…
The defence of the nonconformists plea for peace, or, An account of the matter of their nonconformity against Mr. J. Cheney's answer called The conforming nonconformist, and The nonconforming conformist : to which is added the second part in answer to Mr. Cheney's Five undertakings / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for Benjamin Alsop, 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.
The Second Part.
Mr. Cheney's Five Undertakings Considered.
§ 1. Dear Brother, you and I have exposed our selves as Public Warnings to Mankind, to take heed of an overvaluing of their own Understandings, and of a hasty confidence in their Erroneous Conceptions, and of rash obtruding that upon the World as necessary Truth, for want of Judgment and Time to digest things, which will prove very dangerous Error; and if received and practised, alas, what Mischief may it do! Erring Men know not that they Err: If I think it is you, and you think it is I, and a third think it is both, the Reader greatly profiteth by us, who learneth by our Harms, to have a due suspicion of his own Understanding; and so it be without unnecessary Scepticism, to have humble thoughts of his Conceptions, which have not had time and helps convenient to ripen them: Especially if your Friend or you be Conscious, that you have formerly or lately been as confident in that which you now see was your Error, you should think that the same ⟨p. 136⟩Mind is still in danger of Deceit, and it's as easy to reel into the other Extreme.
§ 1. DEar Brother, you and I have exposed our selves as Publick Warnings to Mankind, to take heed of an overvaluing of their own Understandings, and of a hasty confidence in their Erroneous Conceptions, and of rash obtruding that upon the World as necessary Truth, for want of Judgment and Time to digest things, which will prove very dangerous Error; and if received and practised, alas, what Mischief may it do! Erring Men know not that they Err: If I think it is you, and you think it is I, and a third think it is both, the Reader greatly profiteth by us, who learneth by our Harms, to have a due suspicion of his own Understanding; and so it be without unnecessary Scepticism, to have humble thoughts of his Conceptions, which have not had time and helps convenient to ripen them: Especially if your Friend or you be Conscious, that you have formerly or lately been as confident in that which you now see was your Error, you should think that the same