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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.
3. It defendeth that sin which all experienced judicious men complain of, as that common calamity of mankind, which is the grand cause of contentions, and errors in the World. Which is, mens thinking that they know what they do not, and overvaluing their own understandings, & thinking that they are wise when it is otherwise.
4. It contradicteth the Holy Ghost, and reproveth his language and reproofs, as I have before showed. To which I add 2 Tim. 3. 6, 7. They lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts, ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. 1 Cor. 15. Where Paul is put to prove the Resurrection; ver. 34. Some have not the knowledge of God: I speak this to your shame: ver. 36. Thou fool, that which thou s•west, &c. Hos. 9. 7. The Prophet is a fool, the spiritual man is mad, &c. 1 Cor. 3. 18. Let him become a fool that he ⟨p. 99⟩may be wise. If you say that some of these were not true Saints, I answer, 1. Paul calleth the Church of Corinth in general, Saints. 2. Our question is of more than true Saints; even such as may by others (who are no heart-searchers) be called, Christians; whether we may call any [dull, ignorant, or injudicious Christians?]
4. It contradicteth the Holy Ghost, and reproveth his language and reproofs, as I have before shewed. To which I adde 2 Tim. 3. 6, 7. They lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts, ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.