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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.
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.]
28. You almost if not wholly deny and un-Church Christs Church on earth, while you deny all to be Christians indeed that are ignorant, injudicious, dull, and know not all things.
29. By cherishing the pride and ignorance of Christians, you cherish all their other ⟨p. 103⟩sins, which these two are the common parents of.
30. You make us hereby seem a tender and a factious people, that see motes in the eyes of others, but not beams in our own▪ who can aggravate the sins of others, yea, the public worship into Idolatry it self; But when we come to our party, we take it for a reproach to Christianity, to be called dull, or ignorant, or injudicious.