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Of national churches their description, institution, use, preservation, danger, maladies and cure, partly applied…
Of national churches their description, institution, use, preservation, danger, maladies and cure, partly applied to England / written by Richard Baxter for promoting peace ... and for the fuller explication of the Treaty for Concord in 1660 and 1661, and of the Kings gracious declaration about ecclesiastical affairs ... and for further explication of his treatise of episcopacy ...
London: printed by T. Snowden for Thomas Parkhurst, 1691
Chapter 8: How far this Confederacy and Concord bindeth the Members of a National Church to Confor…
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.
The same I may say of Venice as they Govern all that are under them. It is truly an Aristocracy.
The same I may say of Venice as they Govern all that are under them. It is truely an Aristocracy.
§ 7. Mankind is by dullness and sloth, so far drowned in Ignorance, that the great concerns of Souls, Bodies and Kingdoms are disordered and almost hopelessly confounded by the ignorance of those that will be the Rulers of them. I. Soul matters and Church matters are ravelled by Ignorant Proud Self-conceited ⟨p. 33⟩Priests, and have been so above 1300 years: The things of Religion being mysterious, and Students Dull and Impatient of hard Study.
§ 7. Mankind is by dullness and sloth, so far drowned in Ignorance, that the great concerns of Souls, Bodies and Kingdoms are disordered and almost hopelesly confounded by the ignorance of those that will be the Rulers of them. I. Soul matters and Church matters are ravelled by Ignorant Proud Self-conceited ⟨p. 33⟩Priests, and have been so above 1300 years: The things of Religion being mysterious, and Students Dull and Impatient of hard Study.
II. The Diseases and concerns of the Body are so abstruse, that if among one thousand that practise Physic there be ten that do not kill any of their Patients, they escape well that escape their Hands: All the Neighbours about us hurt us not, because we trust them not: But Physicians kill far more than Enemies.