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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.
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.
67. Hereupon the Exasperations of each Party, will be increased more and more; And the Powerful Worldly Clergy, will think it their Interest, to devise some new Impositions, which they know the other cannot yield to, to work them out.
68. Whether they be Oaths, Subscriptions, Words, or Actions; which they believe to be against Gods Word, the Spiritual, and Upright part of the Clergy and People, will not perform them; resolving to obey God, rather than Man.
69. Hereupon the Worldly part will take their advantage, and call them Disobedient, Stubborn, Proud, Schismatical, Self opinioned, disturbers of the public Peace and Order, Pestilent fellows, and movers of Sedition among the ⟨p. 14⟩People, that will let nothing be quiet, but Turn the World upside-down,