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More proofs of infants church-membership and consequently their right to baptism, or, A second…
More proofs of infants church-membership and consequently their right to baptism, or, A second defence of our infant rights and mercies in three parts ... / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for N. Simmons and J. Robinson, 1675
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.
§. 12. 3. And that wrath is in the cause needs no proof but experience, while we see men come ⟨p. 191⟩forth with militant dispositions, and animosity is their valour, and how to make their adversaries seem contemptible or odious is their work.
§. 13. 2. And if I should but open to you the Disputing evil, in the effects as I have done in the Causes, what a woeful tragedy, of 1500 years duration, should I present you with? But I shall put off that part of the work, supposing that sight and experience do inform you more effectually than words can do.
§. 13. 2. And if I should but open to you the Disputing evil, in the effects as I have done in the Causes, what a woful tragedy, of 1500 years duration, should I present you with? But I shall put off that part of the work, supposing that sight and experience do inform you more effectually than words can do.
§. 14. On all these accounts I still say as Paul, The servant of the Lord must not (needlessly) strive, nor meddle with those wranglings which minister Questions rather than godly edifying which is in faith: For the end of the Commandment is Love out of a pure heart, and a good Conscience and faith unfeigned: And the high pretenders are too often [proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words; whereof cometh envy, strife, railing, evil surmising, perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds and destitute of the truth.
§. 14. On all these accounts I still say as Paul, The servant of the Lord must not (needlesly) strive, nor meddle with those wranglings which minister Questions rather than godly edifying which is in faith: For the end of the Commandment is Love out of a pure heart, and a good Conscience and faith unfeigned: And the high pretenders are too often [proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words; whereof cometh envy, strife, railing, evil surmising, perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds and destitute of the truth.