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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 13: What are the dangerous Diseases of a National Church.
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.
Chap. XIII. What are the dangerous Diseases of a National Church.
§ 1. Death cometh on Bodies Politic, as on Natural Bodies, by degrees, as Diseases weaken and break them. And while they are Diseased, they are in an unlovely troublesome condition. Gods Word, and History, and Experience hath told us, what Diseases they be that are the usual presages of Confusion or Dissolution.
§ 1. DEath cometh on Bodies Politick, as on Natural Bodies, by degrees, as Diseases weaken and break them. And while they are Diseased, they are in an unlovely troublesome condition. Gods Word, and History, and Experience hath told us, what Diseases they be that are the usual presages of Confusion or Dissolution.
§ 2. In general, All sin is to the Soul what Sickness is to the Body, and hath some tendency to destruction. And the increase and abounding of Sin, is a dangerous Prognostic: sins of Sensuality, Gluttony, Drunkenness, and Fornication, when they grow common and impudent, seldom go unpunished. O how dangerous then is the case of England, in which the Sin of Adultery and Fornication, is commonly said to be so increased, that multitudes are guilty now, for One that was ever suspected of it before the Reign of K. Charles the Second. And brutish Wretches scarce take it for a shame.
§ 2. In general, All sin is to the Soul what Sickness is to the Body, and hath some tendency to destruction. And the increase and abounding of Sin, is a dangerous Prognostick: sins of Sensuality, Gluttony, Drunkenness, and Fornication, when they grow common and impudent, seldom go unpunished. O how dangerous then is the case of England, in which the Sin of Adultery and Fornication, is commonly said to be so increased, that multitudes are guilty now, for One that was ever suspected of it before the Reign of K. Charles the Second. And brutish Wretches scarce take it for a shame.