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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.
42. Hereupon the Scandalous and Flagitious Lives of Common Protestants, will be much cured: For the Number of the Flagitious, will grow small; and Crimes will be under common Disgrace. Besides that, they will be punished by the Magistrate: So that, gross Sin will be a Marvel.
42. Hereupon the Scandalous and Flagitious Lives of Common Protestants, will be much cured: For the Number of the Flagitious, will grow small; and Crimes will be under common Disgrace. Besides that, they will be punished by the Magistrate: So that, gross Sin will be a Marvail.
43. The Books of plain Doctrine, and holy Living, with the Pacificatory Treatises of Reconcilers, will then be most in Esteem and Use; which now are so Dis-relished by turbulent, discontented, siding Persons. And abundance ⟨p. 60⟩of Controversial-Writings, about Church-Government, Liturgies, Ceremonies, and many other Matters, will be forgotten, and cast aside, as useless Things: For the Swords shall be made into Plough-Shares, and Pruning-Hooks.
43. The Books of plain Doctrine, and holy Living, with the Pacificatory Treatises of Reconcilers, will then be most in Esteem and Use; which now are so Dis-relished by turbulent, discontented, siding Persons. And abundance ⟨p. 60⟩of Controversal-Writings, about Church-Government, Liturgies, Ceremonies, and many other Matters, will be forgotten, and cast aside, as useless Things: For the Swords shall be made into Plow-Shares, and Pruning-Hooks.
44. The happy Example of that happy Prince, and Country, that shall begin and first accomplish this Work, will be Famous through all the Protestant-Churches; and will inflame such Desires of Imitation in them all, and be such a ready Direction in the way, that it will greatly expedite their answerable Reformation. And the Famous Felicity of that Prince, in the Reformation and Concord of his Subjects, will kindle in the Hearts of other Protestant-Princes and States, an Earnest Desire of the same Felicity. And so, as upon the Invention of Printing, and of Guns, the World was presently possessed of Guns, and of Printed-Books, that never before attained any such thing: So here; they that see the Happiness of one Kingdom brought about, and see how it was done, will have Matter enough before their Eyes, both to excite their Desires, and guide their Endeavours, in the Means to bring all this to pass.