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Directions and persuasions to a sound conversion for prevention of that deceit and damnation…Directions and perswasions to a sound conversion for prevention of that deceit and damnation…
Directions and persuasions to a sound conversion for prevention of that deceit and damnation of souls, and of those scandals, heresies, and desperate apostasies that are the consequents of a counterfeit, or superficial change / by Richard Baxter.Directions and perswasions to a sound conversion for prevention of that deceit and damnation of souls, and of those scandals, heresies, and desperate apostasies that are the consequents of a counterfeit, or superficial change / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed by A.M. for Nevil Simmons, 1658
Directions to Sinners that are purposed to Turn, and are under the… › Direction 8
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.
But the Opinionist is most forward to discourse of mere Opinions; and to feed upon the air of notions, and controversies of lesser moment. For one hours Holy, Heavenly, experimental, heart-searching discourse, that you shall have from him, you shall have many, and many hours discourse of his Opinions. I mean it indifferently of all his Opinions, whether true or false. For though falsehoods cannot be fit food for the Soul, yet Truths themselves, also may be made of little service to them. A man may be a mere Opinionist, that hath true Opinions, as well as he that hath false. Almost all the free and zealous discourse of these men, on matters of Religion, is about their several sides, and parties, and Opinions: If they be set upon a point, especially wherein they seem to themselves, to be wiser then others, they ⟨p. 337⟩have a fire of zeal for it in their breasts, that makes them desirous to be propagating it to others. About the Orders, and Ceremonies of the Church; about the forms of Prayer, and the accidents of worship; about Infant Baptism, or other such controversies in Religion, is the freest of their discourse.
But the Opinionist is most forward to discourse of meer Opinions; and to feed upon the aire of notions, and controversies of lesser moment. For one hours Holy, Heavenly, experimental, heart-searching discourse, that you shall have from him, you shall have many, and many hours discourse of his Opinions. I mean it indifferently of all his Opinions, whether true or false. For though falshoods cannot be fit food for the Soul, yet Truths themselves, also may be made of little service to them. A man may be a meer Opinionist, that hath true Opinions, as well as he that hath false. Almost all the free and zealous discourse of these men, on matters of Religion, is about their several sides, and parties, and Opinions: If they be set upon a point, especially wherein they seem to themselves, to be wiser then others, they ⟨p. 337⟩have a fire of zeale for it in their brests, that makes them desirous to be propagating it to others. About the Orders, and Ceremonies of the Church; about the formes of Prayer, and the accidents of worship; about Infant Baptism, or other such controversies in Religion, is the freest of their discourse.