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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.
24. You vilify all those means which God hath instituted to cure his peoples ignorance, as a needless thing, if it be cured in all already; As reading, hearing, meditating, conference, &c.
24. You vilifie all those means which God hath instituted to cure his peoples ignorance, as a needless thing, if it be cured in all already; As reading, hearing, meditating, conference, &c.
25. You cross the use of all the World, even the works of Creation and Providence, so far as they are Gods means to teach Christians knowledge, and cure their ignorance.
26. You teach men to lose the most of their lives, as to growth in knowledge, when they must believe that they are cured of their ignorance as soon as they are Christians, and know all things perhaps at seven years old.
27. You teach almost all Christians to despair of their sincerity, and to deny themselves to be Christians. For when you have taught them that [whoever are Christians indeed, have received the anointing by which they know all things, and are cured of their ignorance and injudiciousness, & are not to be called dull, or ignorant, or injudicious Christians.] They will quickly assume [But it is not thus with me, I am dull and ignorant, &c. therefore I am not a Christian indeed.]