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A defence of the principles of love, which are necessary to the unity and…
A defence of the principles of love, which are necessary to the unity and concord of Christians and are delivered in a book called The cure of church-divisions ... / by Richard Baxter ...
London: printed for Nevil Simmons, 1671
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.
Believe not, Christians, that you are innocent; Believe not that you are not ignorant and injudicious as you love your souls, and as you love the land: If once God deliver us up to Antichristian darkness and cruelties, it will be cold comfort to you, to think, that you once were flattered into impenitency, and made believe that you were not the Cause.
But that our hearts may yet more relent in this sad condition of the seduced, let us hear the following words.
Besides, (saith he) we cannot understand the meaning of such phrases as [dull Christians, Ignorant and injudicious Christians;] For whoever are Christians indeed have received an anointing, by which they know all things, 1 Joh. 2. 20. 27. And should not have such vile Epithets affixed to them, which only ••nd to expose even Christianity it self, as if it did ⟨p. 90⟩not cure those that sincerely embraced it, of their Ignorance and Injudiciousness.
Besides, (saith he) we cannot understand the meaning of such phrases as [dull Christians, Ignorant and injudicious Christians;] For whoever are Christians indeed have received an anointing, by which they know all things, 1 Joh. 2. 20. 27. And should not have such vile Epithets affixed to them, which only ••nd to expose even Christianity it self, as if it did ⟨p. 90⟩