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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.
96. In the Heat of these Extremities, the most Peaceable and sober Part, both of the Conformists and Non-conformists, will be in best Esteem with the grave and sober People; but in the gratest Strait, with both the Extremes.
96. In the Heat of these Extremities, the most Peaceable and sober Part, both of the Conformists and Non-conformists, will be in best Esteem with the grave and sober People; but in the gratest Streight, with both the Extreams.
97. The Godly and Peaceable Conformists, will get the Love of the Sober, by their Holy Doctrine and Lives: But they will be despised by the Sectaries, because they Conform; ⟨p. 26⟩and they will be suspected by the Proud and Persecuting Clergy, as leaning to the Dissenters, and strengthening them by their Favour; because these Ministers will, in all their Parishes, more love and honour the Godly Non-conformists, than the Irreligious, Ignorant, Worldly, Dead-hearted Multitude, or the Malignant Enemies of Godliness.
97. The Godly and Peaceable Conformists, will get the Love of the Sober, by their Holy Doctrine and Lives: But they will be despised by the Sectaries, because they Conform; ⟨p. 26⟩and they will be suspected by the Proud and Persecuting Clergy, as leaning to the Dissenters, and strengthening them by their Favour; because these Ministers will, in all their Parishes, more love and honour the Godly Non-conformists, than the Irreligious, Ignorant, Wordly, Dead-hearted Multitude, or the Malignant Enemies of Godlyness.
98. Hereupon these Conformists being taken for the chief Upholders of the Non-conformists, will be under continual Jealousies, and Rebukes. And perhaps, new Points of Conformity shall be devised, to be imposed on them, which it is known, their Consciences are against; that so they may be forced also to be Non-conformists: Because Secret Enemies are more dangerous, than Open Foes.