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The nonconformists plea for peace, or, An account of their judgment in certain things…
The nonconformists plea for peace, or, An account of their judgment in certain things in which they are misunderstood written to reconcile and pacify such as by mistaking them hinder love and concord / by Richard Baxter.The nonconformists plea for peace, or, An account of their judgment in certain things in which they are misunderstood written to reconcile and pacifie such as by mistaking them hinder love and concord / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for Benj. Alsop, 1679
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.
VI. Experience assureth us that men are not usually brought to knowledge, repentance, faith and holiness, by the Gospel ex opere operato, or as by a charm; but as an apt moral cause; And that the Preaching of judicious, convincing, serious, affectionate Ministers hath incomparably more success, than the affected language, or dull reading speeches of injudicious novices or worldly formalists or hypocrites: God usually worketh according to the moral aptitude of the means (though not always.)
VI. Experience assureth us that men are not usually brought to knowledge, repentance, faith and holiness, by the Gospel ex opere operato, or as by a charm; but as an apt morall cause; And that the Preaching of judicious, convincing, serious, affectionate Ministers hath incomparably more success, than the affected language, or dull reading speeches of injudicious novices or wordly formalists or hypocrites: God usually worketh according to the morall aptitude of the means (though not alwaies.)
VII. It cannot be denied but that the number of raw cold, dry, yea and scandalous Ministers, in many Counties of this Kingdom is too great: And the more ignorant and bad the people are, the abler Ministers, and more diligent do they need: And those people who feel what profiteth their Souls, will not take up with cold, uneffectual teaching, if they can have better.
VII. It cannot be denyed but that the number of raw cold, dry, yea and scand•lous Ministers, in many Counties of this Kingdom is too great: And the more ignorant and bad the people are, the abler Ministers, and more diligent do they need: And those people who feel what profiteth their Souls, will not take up with cold, uneffectual teaching, if they can have better.