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A saint or a brute the certain necessity and excellency of holiness, &c. ...…
A saint or a brute the certain necessity and excellency of holiness, &c. ... / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed by R.W. for Francis Tyton, 1662
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
4. Note also, the humility and teachableness of Disciples in those times, who were wont to sit learning at their Teachers feet: Which was then an ordinary case, and not of Christ Disciples only. Paul was brought up at the feet of Gamaliel, Acts 22. 3. Not like the proud and self-conceited part of our hearers in these times, that come to hear somewhat for their malicious or contentious minds to quarrel with, and expect that their Teachers tell them nothing but what is agreeable to their own conceits, and think us to be injurious to them, if we would heal their ignorance or impiety, and make them any wiser or better then they are; and that reproach us and set themselves against us as their enemies, if we will not be ruled by them and humour them in all our administrations, as if we were the patients and they the Physician, we the learners and they the Teachers, yea we their servants, and they our Guides and Rulers in the matters of our own Office.
4. Note also, the humility and teachableness of Disciples in those times, who were wont to sit learning at their Teachers feet: Which was then an ordinary case, and not of Christ Disciples only. Paul was brought up at the feet of Gamaliel, Acts 22. 3. Not like the proud and self-conceited part of our hearers in these times, that come to hear somewhat for their malicious or contentious minds to quarrel with, and expect that their Teachers tell them nothing but what is agreeable to their own conceits, and think us to be injurious to them, if we would heal their ignorance or impiety, and make them any wiser or better then they are; and that reproach us and set themselves against us as their enemies, if we will not be ruled by them and humour them in all our administrations, as if we were the patients and they the Physicion, we the learners and they the Teachers, yea we their servants, and they our Guides and Rulers in the matters of our own Office.
But let us come closer to the words themselves, and consider of the Instructions which they afford us. which are these.