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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
Chapter 44: Of Lay Conformity. Point I. Whether all Men must trust their Souls only on the Pastoral…
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that preached all for Faith, and Hope, and Love, and Holiness, and Peace, and Heaven; and lived in exemplary Charity, Piety, and Righteously and Soberly, and unweariedly taught them with tenderness publicly and from House to House. And the sense and experience of their Souls tells them how great the change of their condition is? 4. Suppose these Men hear the Teacher called Arminian, deriding Infusions of the Spirit and Grace, and proving that God worketh on Souls morally by the aptitude of means, and teacheth and changeth Men as rational Creatures? Can you blame this Man if he conclude [My Soul is more to me than my Life: my Necessity is unquestionable: my Experience what edifieth me is not to be born down by the scorn of a derider. I am dark and dull, and too bad under the best helps, but alas profit little by an insipid, sleepy or deriding Speech. As no man hath power to tie me to marry an ugly-Scold, or to trust a Fool, or Knave, or Enemy for my Physician; so no man hath power to deprive me of the needful helps to my Salvation, when I can have them.
that preacht all for Faith, and Hope, and Love, and Holiness, and Peace, and Heaven; and lived in exemplary Charity, Piety, and Righteously and Soberly, and unweariedly taught them with tenderness publickly and from House to House. And the sense and experience of their Souls tells them how great the change of their condition is? 4. Suppose these Men hear the Teacher called Arminian, deriding Infusions of the Spirit and Grace, and proving that God worketh on Souls morally by the aptitude of means, and teacheth and changeth Men as rational Creatures? Can you blame this Man if he conclude [My Soul is more to me than my Life: my Necessity is unquestionable: my Experience what edifieth me is not to be born down by the scorn of a derider. I am dark and dull, and too bad under the best helps, but alas profit little by an insipid, sleepy or deriding Speech. As no man hath power to tie me to marry an ugly-Scold, or to trust a Fool, or Knave, or Enemy for my Physician; so no man hath power to deprive me of the needful helps to my Salvation, when I can have them.
L. But they all Preach the same Word of God.