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The English nonconformity as under King Charles II and King James II truly stated…
The English nonconformity as under King Charles II and King James II truly stated and argued by Richard Baxter ; who earnestly beseecheth rulers and clergy not to divide and destroy the land and cast their own souls on the dreadful guilt and punishment of national perjury ...
London: printed for Tho. Parkhurst, 1689
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.
The Questions to be well Considered.
Quest. 1. Are we not on all sides agreed that we are Mortals posting to the Grave? Doth any Man think he shall not die? And is striving or mutual Love and Quietness, a fitter Passage to the dust? Do not all Men, constrained by natural Conscience, at a dying Hour, repent of hurting others, and ask Forgiveness of all the World? Yea, if you are not worse than most Heathens, Are we not agreed, That Man's Soul is immortal, and that we shall all be shortly in another World; and that it shall be with us there, as we live on Earth? If any doubt of this, should not the least probability of such an everlasting Life, of Joy or Misery, prevail against the certain Vanity of such a shadow as this World? Or if yet they believe not another Life, Why should they not let those live in quietness that do believe it, and dare not hazard their everlasting Hopes for nothing, as long as they do no hurt to others?
Quest. 1. ARe we not on all sides agreed that we are Mortals posting to the Grave? Doth any Man think he shall not die? And is striving or mutual Love and Quietness, a fitter Passage to the dust? Do not all Men, constrained by natural Conscience, at a dying Hour, repent of hurting others, and ask Forgiveness of all the World? Yea, if you are not worse than most Heathens, Are we not agreed, That Man's Soul is immortal, and that we shall all be shortly in another World; and that it shall be with us there, as we live on Earth? If any doubt of this, should not the least probability of such an everlasting Life, of Joy or Misery, prevail against the certain Vanity of such a shadow as this World? Or if yet they believe not another Life, Why should they not let those live in quietness that do believe it, and dare not hazard their everlasting Hopes for nothing, as long as they do no hurt to others?