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The mischiefs of self-ignorance and the benefits of self-acquaintance opened in divers sermons at…
The mischiefs of self-ignorance and the benefits of self-acquaintance opened in divers sermons at Dunstan's-West and published in answer to the accusations of some and the desires of others / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed by R. White for F. Tyton, 1662
THE Mischief of Self-ignorance, AND Benefit of Self-acquaintance. › Part
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2. Some of them turn Papists because they see some differences among other Christians, and hear them call one another by names of contumely and reproach▪ and therefore they think that such can […] no true Churches of Christ: But if th•• ⟨p. 35⟩knew themselves, they would be acquainted with more culpable errors in themselves, then those for which many others are reproached; and see how irrational a thing it is to change their Religion upon the scolding words or slanders of another; or which is worse, upon their own uncharitable censures.
2. Some of them turn Papists because they see some differences among other Christians, and hear them call one another by names of contumely and reproach▪ and therefore they think that such can 〈…〉 no true Churches of Christ: But if th•• ⟨p. 35⟩knew themselves, they would be acquainted with more culpable errors in themselves, then those for which many others are reproached; and see how irrational a thing it is to change their Religion upon the scolding words or slanders of another; or which is worse, upon their own uncharitable censures.
3. Some turn to the Papists as apprehending their Ceremonious kind of Religion, to be an easier way to Heaven then ours: But if they knew themselves, they would know that it is a more solid and spiritual sort of food that their nature doth require, and a more searching Physic that must cure their diseases; and that shells and chaff will not feed, but choke and starve their souls.
3. Some turn to the Papists as apprehending their Ceremonious kind of Religion, to be an easier way to Heaven then ours: But if they knew themselves, they would know that it is a more solid and spiritual sort of food that their nature doth require, and a more searching Physick that must cure their diseases; and that shells and chaff will not feed, but choak and starve their souls.