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Richard Baxter's farewell sermon prepared to have been preached to his hearers at Kidderminster…Richard Baxter's farewel sermon prepared to have been preached to his hearers at Kidderminster…
Richard Baxter's farewell sermon prepared to have been preached to his hearers at Kidderminster at his departure, but forbidden.Richard Baxter's farewel sermon prepared to have been preached to his hearers at Kidderminster at his departure, but forbidden.
London: printed for B. Simmons, 1683
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
IV. I rejoice that God hath kept you humble, that you have not been addicted to proud ostentation of your Gifts or Wisdom, nor inclined to invade any part of the Sacred Office, but to serve God in the capacity where he hath placed you.
IV. I rejoyce that God hath kept you humble, that you have not been addicted to proud ostentation of your Gifts or Wisdom, nor inclined to invade any part of the Sacred Office, but to serve God in the capacity where he hath placed you.
V. I rejoice that God hath made you Unanimous, and kept out Sects and Heresies, and Schisms, so that you have served him as with one Mind and Mouth: And that you have not been addicted to proud wranglings, disputings, and contentions, but have lived in Unity, Love and Peace, and the practice of known and necessary truths.
V. I rejoyce that God hath made you Unanimous, and kept out Sects and Heresies, and Schisms, so that you have served him as with one Mind and Mouth: And that you have not been addicted to proud wranglings, disputings, and contentions, but have lived in Unity, Love and Peace, and the practice of known and necessary truths.
VI. I rejoice that your frequent meetings in your Houses, spent only in Reading, Repeating your Teachers Sermons, Prayer and Praise to God, have had none of those effects which the Conventicles of proud Opiniators, and Self-conceited Persons use to have, and which have brought even needful converse, and godly communication into suspicion at least with some, that argue against duty from the abuse.
VI. I rejoyce that your frequent meetings in your Houses, spent only in Reading, Repeating your Teachers Sermons, Prayer and Praise to God, have had none of those effects which the Conventicles of proud Opiniators, and Self-conceited Persons use to have, and which have brought even needful converse, and godly communication into suspicion at least with some, that argue against duty from the abuse.