A26958:92
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.
64. That which is but a Weed among these Flowers, the more Heavenly Ministers and People will dislike, and much more dislike the Loathsome Face of Death (or lifelessness) in their Religion.
64. That which is but a Weed among these Flowers, the more Heavenly Ministers and People will dislike, and much more dislike the Loathsome Face of Death (or lifelesness) in their Religion.
65. These differences of Mind and Practise, will Engage both Parties in some kind of Opposition to each other. The Worldly Clergy or Hypocrites, will have Heart-risings against the Ministers and People that think meanly of them, and will take it for their Interest to bring them down. For Enmity is hardly restrained from Exercise. And Cain will be Wrath, that Abel's Sacrifice is better accepted than his own.
65. These differences of Mind and Practise, will Engage both Parties in some kind of Opposition to each other. The Worldly Clergy or Hipocrites, will have Heart-risings against the Ministers and People that think meanly of them, and will take it for their Interest to bring them down. For Enmity is hardly restrained from Exercise. And Cain will be Wrath, that Abels Sacrifice is better accepted than his own.
66. The better Ministers, will be apt through Passion, to speak too dishonourably of the other: And the rash, and younger sort, and the Heretical Hypocrites that fall in with them, will take it for part of a Godly Zeal to speak against them to the People, in such Words as Christ used of the Scribes and Pharisees.