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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.
118. It will be a great injury, and grief, and danger to Christian Kings and States, to have their Kingdoms and Common-wealths thus weakened, and the Cordial Love, and Assistance of their Subjects made so loose and so uncertain.
118. It will be a great injury, and grief, and danger to Christian Kings and States, to have their Kingdomes and Common-wealths thus weakened, and the Cordial Love, and Assistance of their Subjects made so loose and so uncertain.
119. And it will be a continual vexation to Wise and Peaceable Princes, to Govern such divided, discontented People; But to rule a United, Loving, Concordant, Peaceable People, will be their Delight and Joy.
120. A WORLDLY, Covetous, Proud, Domineering, Malignant, Lazy Clergy, will in most Christian Nations, be the great Plague of the World, and troublers of Princes, and Dividers of Churches; who, for the Interest of their Grandeur, and their Wills, will not give the Sober, and Peaceable, and Godly Ministers, or People, Leave to serve God quietly, and live in Peace. And the Impatient, Self-conceited, Sectarian Spirit, which like Gun-Powder, takes Fire upon such Injuries, is the secondary divider of the Churches, and hinderer of Christian Love and Peace; and by their mutual Enmity and abuses, they will drive each other so far into the Extremity of Aversation and Opposition, that they will but make each other Mad; and then like Mad-men, run and quarrel, while sober Men stand by and pity them; but can help neither the one party, nor the other, nor preserve their own, or the public Peace.
120. A WORLDLY, Covetous, Proud, Domineering, Malignant, Lazy Clergy, will in most Christian Nations, be the great Plague of the World, and troublers of Princes, and Dividers of Churches; who, for the Interest of their Grandure, and their Wills, will not give the Sober, and Peaceable, and Godly Ministers, or People, Leave to serve God quietly, and live in Peace. And the Impatient, Self-conceited, Sectarian Spirit, which like Gun-Powder, takes Fire upon such Injuries, is the secondary divider of the Churches, and hinderer of Christian Love and Peace; and by their mutual Enmity and abuses, they will drive each other so far into the Extremity of Aversation and Opposition, that they will but make each other Mad; and then like Mad-men, run and quarrel, while sober Men stand by and pitty them; but can help neither the one party, nor the other, nor preserve their own, or the publike Peace.