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A moral prognostication I. what shall befall the churches on Earth, till their concord
A moral prognostication I. what shall befall the churches on Earth, till their concord, by the restitution of their primitive purity, simplicity, and charity, II. how that restitution is like to be made, (if ever) and what shall befall them thence-forth unto the end, in that golden-age of love / written by Richard Baxter ...
London: printed for Thomas Simmons, 1680
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.
76. By this time the Devil will have done the Radical part of his Work; which is to Destroy much of Christian Love to one another, and make them take each other for unlovely odious Persons: The one part, for Persecuting Enemies of Godliness, and Hypocrites, and Pharisees: The other for peevish, seditious, turbulent, unruly Sectaries. And on these suppositions, all their after Characters, affections and practises towards each other will proceed.
76. By this time the Devil will have done the Radical part of his Work; which is to Destroy much of Christian Love to one another, and make them take each other for unlovely odious Persons: The one part, for Persecuting Enemies of Godliness, and Hypocrites, and Pharisees: The other for pevish, seditious, turbulent, unruly Sectaries. And on these supositions, all their after Characters, affections and practises towards each other will proceed.
77. By this Enmity and Opposition against each other, both Parties will increase in Wrath, and somewhere in ⟨p. 16⟩Numbers. The Worldly Afflicting Clergy will multiply not only such as are disaffected to them, but downright Fanatics, and Sectaries that will run as far from them as they can, into contrary Extremes. For when they are once brought into a distaste of the old Hive, the Bees will hardly gather into one new one; but will divide into several Swarms and Hives. As every Mans Zeal is more against the Afflicting party; so he will go further from them: Some to be Separatists, some Anabaptists, some Antinomians, some Seekers, some Quakers, and some to they know not what themselves.
77. By this Enmity and Opposition against each other, both Parties will increase in Wrath, and somewhere in ⟨p. 16⟩Numbers. The Worldly Afflicting Clergy will multiply not only such as are disaffected to them, but downright Fanaticks, and Sectaries that will run as far from them as they can, into contrary Extreams. For when they are once brought into a distast of the old Hive, the Bees will hardly gather into one new one; but will divide into several Swarms and Hives. As every Mans Zeal is more against the Afflicting party; so he will go further from them: Some to be Separatists, some Anabaptists, some Antinomians, some Seekers, some Quakers, and some to they know not what themselves.