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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.
25. Morality hath innumerable Difficulties as well as School-divinity: Because that Moral Good and Evil, are ordinarily such by preponderating Accidents; (Actions as Actions, being neither; but only of Physical Consideration.) And the work of a true Casuist is to compare so many Accidents, and to discern in the comparison which preponderateth that it requireth both an Acute and a Large Capacious far seeing wit, to make a Man a true resolver of Cases of Conscience. And Consequently to be a judicious Pastor, that shall not lead the People into Errors.
25. Morality hath innumerable Difficulties as well as School-divinity: Because that Moral Good and Evil, are ordinarily such by preponderating Accidents; (Actions as Actions, being neither; but only of Physical Consideration.) And the work of a true Casuist is to compare so many Accidents, and to discern in the comparison which prepondorateth that it requireth both an Acute and a Large Capacious far seeing wit, to make a Man a true resolver of Cases of Conscience. And Consequently to be a judicious Paster, that shall not lead the People into Errours.
26. As few Teachers have Natural Capacity for Exactness, and a Willingness, and Patience for long Laborious Studies; so many by their Pastoral oversight of Souls, and many by the wants of their Families (especially in times or Persecution, when all their public maintenance is gone, and they must Live (with their Families) on the Charity of People, perhaps Poor and Persecuted as well as ⟨p. 7⟩they) are hindered from those Studies, which else they would undergo.
26. As few Teachers have Natural Capacity for Exactness, and a Willingness, and Patience for long Laborious Studies; so many by their Pastoral oversight of Souls, and many by the wants of their Families (especially in times or Persecution, when all their publike maintenance is gone, and they must Live (with their Families) on the Charity of People, perhaps Poor and Persecuted as well as ⟨p. 7⟩