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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.
13. He that seeth but few things, seeth not much to make him doubt, and seeth not the difficulties which should check his Confidence, and stiffness in his way.
14. He that seeth many things, and that clearly knoweth much; especially, if he see them in their Order, and respects to one another, and leaveth out no one substantial Part, which is needful to open the signification of the rest.
15. He that seeth many things disorderly, and confusedly, and not in due method, and leaveth out some substantial Parts, and hath not a digested Knowledge, doth know much, and err much, and may make a bustle in the World of Ignorants, as if he were an excellent Learned Man; but hath little of the Inward delight, or of the Power and Benefits of Knowledge.
16. He that seeth many things but darkly, confusedly, and not in the true place and method, cannot reconcile Truths among themselves; but is like a Boy with a pair of Tarrying-Irons, or like one that hath his Clock or Watch all in pieces, and knoweth not how to set them altogether. And therefore, is inclined to be a Sceptic.
16. He that seeth many things but darkly, confusedly, and not in the true place and method, cannot reconcile Truths among themselves; but is like a Boy with a pair of Tarrying-Irons, or like one that hath his Clock or Watch all in peices, and knoweth not how to set them altogether. And therefore, is inclined to be a Sceptick.