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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.
Q. 44. Who did Christ mean by the Hypocrite that seeth a mote in his brothers eye, and could not see the beam in his own? Was it not the Pharisee that blamed Christ's Disciples for crossing their Ceremonies and Traditions, and saw not all the crimes in themselves recited Mat. 23. And is not the scrupling of a thing called by others Indifferent, a mote in the eye of many truly godly persons? I will not offend you by describing the beams.
Q. 44. VVho did Christ mean by the Hypocrite that seeth a mote in his brothers eye, and could not see the beam in his own? VVas it not the Pharisee that blamed Christ's Disciples for crossing their Ceremonies and Traditions, and saw not all the crimes in themselves recited Mat. 23. And is not the scrupling of a thing called by others Indifferent, a mote in the eye of many truly godly persons? I will not offend you by describing the beams.
Q. 45. Have we not often offered, that as soon as any true reason can tell us, that our Labours are here needless, by the sufficient number, and quality, and labours of others, we will joy fully be silent, and seek for work where there is need: Till then, to starve souls is to be guilty of their damnation. And if Meeting-Chapels be wanting, why do not the great and rich Conformists build them?
Q. 46. Is it not a pleasing advantage to Papists, if they can see two thousand of those Minister, who are most against them, silenced, and driven from Cities and Corporations, and made a hunting game and scorn, and the Kingdom cracked by general divisions, as turned into Guelphs and Ghibellines, weekly reviling ⟨p. 303⟩