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The Protestant religion truly stated and justified by the late Reverend Mr. Richard BaxterThe Protestant religion truely stated and justified by the late Reverend Mr. Richard Baxter
The Protestant religion truly stated and justified by the late Reverend Mr. Richard Baxter ; prepared for the press some time before his death ; whereunto is added, by way of preface, some account of the learned author, by Mr. Daniel Williams and Mr. Matthew Sylvester.The Protestant religion truely stated and justified by the late Reverend Mr. Richard Baxter ; prepared for the press some time before his death ; whereunto is added, by way of preface, some account of the learned author, by Mr. Danel Williams and Mr. Matthew Sylvester.
London: printed for John Salusbury, 1692
Protestant Religion Truly Stated, and Justified, &c. › The Two and Fiftieth accused Point.
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.
What melody would it be for all the Church to sing in as many Tunes as persons? What King or Judge will take it for a Petition, for a man to talk-gibberish to him, or say he knoweth not what?
10. Even Papists deride Quakers, for meeting to say nothing: And what difference is there, when they hear and say nothing understood, saving that the Voice maketh it a more pompous Mockery, than the Quakers Silence? O! who would have thought that the primitive manner of public worship, should ever have degenerated into such a profane abuse of God and man, against plain Scripture, universal practice, and humane Reason? And this as a part of a grand design to kill the Life of all true Religion▪ and delude Souls with the dead Carcass of mortified Formalities, and Ceremonies; and that men should think that Souls are saved as Wizards do pretend, to do Cures by Charms of words not understood; they serve God with empty shells, when they have cast away the Kernels: Like the silly Samaritan▪ Woman, that looked for a Christ to come to tell them, whether in this Mountain ⟨p. 178⟩or at Jerusalem men ought to worship, little knowing what it was to worship God as a Spirit, in Spirit and Truth, when it should be neither at that Mountain, or at Jerusalem.
10. Even Papists deride Quakers, for meeting to say nothing: And what difference is there, when they hear and say nothing understood, saving that the Voice maketh it a more pompous Mockery, than the Quakers Silence? O! who would have thought that the primitive manner of publick worship, should ever have degenerated into such a prophane abuse of God and man, against plain Scripture, universal practice, and humane Reason? And this as a part of a grand design to kill the Life of all true Religion▪ and delude Souls with the dead Carkass of mortified Formalities, and Ceremonies; and that men should think that Souls are saved as Wizards do pretend, to do Cures by Charms of words not understood; they serve God with empty shells, when they have cast away the Kernels: Like the silly Samaritan Woman, that lookt for a Christ to come to tell them, whether in this Mountain