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The Scripture Gospel defended, and Christ, grace, and free justification vindicated against the libertines…
The Scripture Gospel defended, and Christ, grace, and free justification vindicated against the libertines ... in two books : the first, a breviate of fifty controversies about justification ... : the second upon the sudden reviving of antinomianism ... and the re-printing of Dr. Crisp's sermons with additions ... / by Richard Baxter ...
London: printed for Tho. Parkhurst, 1690
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.
11. If it be no hurt to be mad, what is Bedlam good for? Or to be tormented with Stone, Colic, Convulsion, or any Disease; why will these Fanatics seek to Physicians, use Medicines, and groan in Pain? Possidonius would confute his Tongue by a sower-face or a groan; when he said, O Pain, thou shalt not make me confess that thou art (malum) ill, or bad.
11. If it be no hurt to be mad, what is Bedlam good for? Or to be tormented with Stone, Collick, Convulsion, or any Disease; why will these Phanaticks seek to Physicians, use Medicines, and groan in Pain? Possidonius would confute his Tongue by a sower-face or a groan; when he said, O Pain, thou shalt not make me confess that thou art (malum) ill, or bad.
12. Why do we not take up with the three first Petitions in the Lords Prayer, if our own Interest be not next to be regarded and prayed for?
13. Why pray we for our daily Bread, if there be no hurt to want it; or for the pardon of sin, if punishment be impossible, or hurt not; or against temptations and the evil one, and evil things, if they be no such?