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The Quakers catechism, or, The Quakers questioned, their questions answered, and both published for…
The Quakers catechism, or, The Quakers questioned, their questions answered, and both published for the sake of those of them that have not yet sinned unto death and of those ungrounded novices that are most in danger of their seduction / by R[i]chard Baxter.
London: printed by A.M. for Thomas Underhill and Francis Tyton, 1655
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2. And is it not apparent pride in them to set up themselves so far above all the people of God on earth? yea, to vilify the most holy and eminent Servants of God, and condemn all the Churches in the world, as if heaven were made for them alone (if it were so well, that all of them did believe a heaven besides that within them, which I suppose is but a sorry heaven.
2. And is it not apparent pride in them to set up themselves so far above all the people of God on earth? yea, to vilifie the most holy and eminent Servants of God, and condemn all the Churches in the world, as if heaven were made for them alone (if it were so well, that all of them did beleeve a heaven besides that within them, which I suppose is but a sorry heaven.
3. And yet more unmatchable pride and impious Infidelity is it, to damn all the Church and people of God for this 1600 years at least. Indeed God had never a people on earth of these mens way: But (to let pass the Scripture ages which condemn them) tell me, Had Christ any Church since the Apostles days till now, or not? If he had not, then he was no head of the Church, and so no Christ: For there is no head without a body: If he had a Church tell us, where it was, and when? Do you not know (if you know any thing of the state of the Church for 1600 Years) that Christ had no Church on earth of the Quakers mind, and that all his Ministers have been such as they condemn, and have been called by as honourable Titles as they are now? And is not that man either an Infidel and enemy to Christ, or stark mad with pride, that can believe that Christ had no Church till now, and that all the Ministers of the Gospel for 1600 years were the Ministers of the devil (as they say of us that tread in their steps) and that all the Christians of that 1600 Years are damned (at now they dare denounce against those that succeed them,) and that God made the world, and Christ died for it, with a purpose to save none but a few Quakers that the world never knew till a few Years ago; or at least a few Heretics that were their Predecessors of old.
3. And yet more unmatchable pride and impious Infidelity is it, to damn all the Church and people of God for this 1600 years at least. Indeed God had never a people on earth of these mens way: But (to let passe the Scripture ages which condemn them) tell me, Had Christ any Church since the Apostles daies till now, or not? If he had not, then he was no head of the Church, and so no Christ: For there is no head without a body: If he had a Church tell us, where it was, and when? Do you not know (if you know any thing of the state of the Church for 1600 Years) that Christ had no Church on earth of the Quakers minde, and that all his Ministers have been such as they condemn, and have been called by as honourable Titles as they are now? And is not that man either an Infidel and enemy to Christ, or stark mad with pride, that can believe that Christ had no Church till now, and that all the Ministers of the Gospel for 1600 years were the Ministers of the devil (as they say of us that tread in their steps) and that all the Christians of that 1600 Years are damned (at now they dare denounce against those that succeed them,) and that God made the world, and Christ died for it, with a purpose to save none but a few Quakers that the world never knew till a few Years agoe; or at least a few Hereticks that were their Predecessors of old.