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The difference between the power of magistrates and church-pastors and the Roman kingdom &…
The difference between the power of magistrates and church-pastors and the Roman kingdom & magistracy under the name of a church & church-government usurped by the Pope, or liberally given him by popish princes opened 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.
25. The Devil hath fought in all Ages as subtly and diligently against the holy Discipline of Christ, as against the Christian Doctrine.
25. The Devil hath fought in all Ages as subtilly and diligently against the holy Discipline of Christ, as against the Christian Doctrine.
26. True Discipline doth so wonderfully displease the guilty, and lose mens love, and especially the Richer sort, and all mens carnal interest and nature inclineth them so much to man-pleasing and flattery, that Ministers have abundance more need to be driven to the exercise of Discipline, than restrained from it; except it be the corrupt and carnal Discipline which the Popish and tyrannizing Clergy do exercise, where the Magistrate himself upholdeth them in Grandeur, and lendeth them his Sword. Let Discipline be but such as Christ appointed, and stand of it self, and then it is but few that will have any more cause, to be restrained from it, than from too much preaching: Though still I yield, that there must be limits for the wilful and the indiscreet, 1 Cor. 5. 3 John 9.
26. True Discipline doth so wonderfully displease the guilty, and lose mens love, and especially the Richer sort, and all mens carnal interest and nature inclineth them so much to man-pleasing and flattery, that Ministers have abundance more need to be driven to the exercise of Discipline, than restrained from it; except it be the corrupt and carnal Discipline which the Popish and tyrannizing Clergy do exercise, where the Magistrate himself upholdeth them in Grandure, and lendeth them his Sword. Let Discipline be but such as Christ appointed, and stand of it self, and then it is but few that will have any more cause, to be restrained from it, than from too much preaching: Though still I yield, that there must be limits for the wilful and the indiscr•et,