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Mr. Richard Baxter's last legacy in select admonitions and directions to all sober dissenters
Mr. Richard Baxter's last legacy in select admonitions and directions to all sober dissenters.
London : Printed and are to be sold by E. Whitlock, 1697
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they are self-evident, and speak home to the Judgment and Consciences of all unprejudiced Men, who cannot resist the force of that Reason and Demonstration, which inspires every part of them with so much Life and Power, Beauty and Ornament, Consistency and Symmetry, as will render them highly Acceptable, Amiable, and Beneficial to such as shall embrace and practise them. As for such Dissenters as have conceived any hard thoughts of Mr. Baxter, or these his Admonitions, I entreat them to consider, whether they can answer or confute them to the satisfaction of their own Consciences, and if they cannot, then whether it be not rational and pious to walk by these directions which tend so much to the establishment of the public Peace of this divided Church and Nation, and to their own present and eternal welfare.
they are self-evident, and speak home to the Judgment and Consciences of all unprejudiced Men, who cannot resist the force of that Reason and Demonstration, which inspires every part of them with so much Life and Power, Beauty and Ornament, Consistency and Symmetry, as will render them highly Acceptable, Amiable, and Beneficial to such as shall embrace and practise them. As for such Dissenters as have conceived any hard thoughts of Mr. Baxter, or these his Admonitions, I intreat them to consider, whether they can answer or confute them to the satisfaction of their own Consciences, and if they cannot, then whether it be not rational and pious to walk by these directions which tend so much to the establishment of the publick Peace of this divided Church and Nation, and to their own present and eternal welfare.
2. Objection. It may be said that these Admonitions are now become unseasonable, there being a Toleration granted to Men of all Persuasions to Worship God after their several modes.
2. Objection. It may be said that these Amonitions are now become unseasonable, there being a Toleration granted to Men of all Perswasions to Worship God after their several modes.