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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.
89. The Suffering Party, seeing the Ungodly, and the Conforming Afflicters of them thus United, and made one Party in Opposition to them, will increase their hard thoughts of the adverse Clergy, and take them for downright Profane, and the leading Enemies of Godliness in the World, that will be Captains in the Devils Army, and Lead on all the most Ungodly, against serious Godliness, for their Worldly Ends.
89. The Suffering Party, seeing the Ungodly, and the Conforming Afflicters of them thus United, and made one Party in Opposition to them, will increase their hard thoughts of the adverse Clergy, and take them for downright Prophane, and the leading Enemies of Godliness in the World, that will be Captains in the Devils Army, and Lead on all the most Ungodly, against serious Godliness, for their Wordly Ends.
90. And the young and indifferent sort of People in all Countries, that were engaged in neither part, being but strangers to Religion, and to the differences, will be ready to judge of the Cause by the Persons; and seeing so many of the Dignified Advanced Clergy, and the more sensual sort of the People on one side, and so many Men of strict lives on the other, that suffer▪ also for their Religion, and hearing too that it is some Name of Preciseness, that they are Reproached by, will think them to be the better side; And so the title of the Godly will grow by degrees, to be almost Appropriated to their Party, and the Title of Profane and Persecutors to the other.
90. And the young and indifferent sort of People in all Countrys, that were engaged in neither part, being but strangers to Religion, and to the differences, will be ready to judge of the Cause by the Persons; and seeing so many of the Dignified Advanced Clergy, and the more sensual sort of the People on one side, and so many Men of strict lives on the other, that suffer▪ also for their Religion, and hearing too that it is some Name of Preciseness, that they are Reproached by, will think them to be the better side; And so the title of the Godly will grow by degrees, to be almost Appropriated to their Party, and the Title of Prophane and Persecuters to the other.