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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.
§. 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.