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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.
79. And many Hypocrites that have no sound Religion; but Ignorance, Pride, and Uncharitableness, will thrust in among them, in these discontents; or spring up in the Nurseries of these Briers of Passion, and will bring in New Doctrines, and New ways of Worship, and make themselves Preachers, and the Heads of Sects: By Reason of whom, the way of Truth shall be Evil spoken of.
79. And many Hypocrites that have no sound Religion; but Ignorance, Pride, and U•charitableness, will thrust in among them, in these discontents; or spring up in the Nurceries of these Bryers of Passion, and will bring in New Doctrines, and New ways of Worship, and make themselves Preachers, and the Heads of Sects: By Reason of whom, the way of Truth shall be Evil spoken of.
80. And many unstable Persons seeing this, will dread and loath so giddy a sort of men, and will turn Papists, upon the persuasions of them that tell them, that there is no true Unity nor Consistency, but at Rome; and that all must thus turn giddy at last, that are not fixed in the Papal Head. And thus they that fly too far from the Common Prayer Book, will drive men to the Mass, and the afflicters will make Sectaries, and the Sectaries will make Papists.
80. And many unstable Persons seeing this, will dread and loath so giddy a sort of men, and will turn Papists, upon the perswasions of them that tell them, that there is no true Unity nor Consistency, but at Rome; and that all must thus turn giddy at last, that are not fixed in the Papal Head. And thus they that fly too far from the Common Prayer Book, will drive men to the Mass, and the afflicters will make Sectaries, and the Sectaries will make Papists.
81. When the Violent Clergy, instead of a Fatherly Government of the Flocks, have driven the People into Passions, Distempers, and Uncharitable disaffections to themselves, and have also been the great Cause of multiplied Heresies, and Sects by the same means, instead of being Humbled and Penitent for their Sin, they will be hardened, and justify all their violences, by the giddiness and miscarriages of those Sectaries, which they themselves have made.