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The true and only way of concord of all the Christian churches the desirableness…
The true and only way of concord of all the Christian churches the desirableness of it, and the detection of false dividing terms / opened by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for John Hancock, 1680
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.
§. 6. 4. The very sins or merits of Parents may do much to the hurt or benefit of Children; partly by corrupting or bettering their bodily temperature, and partly by Gods curse or blessing on their souls: As I have fully proved in my Second Disputation of Original Sin.
§. 7. 5. And were there no other cause of different conceptions than the different education of children by their parents, it would make a very great difference in the world. When one is brought up in Learning, and another in barbarism; one in reading and hearing Gods Word, and another in contemning and deriding it: One is taught to reverence Gods name and truth, and another to blaspheme them or despise them: One is taught one Religion and another another: One is taught to lay all his salvation on that which another is taught to abhor. And it is not only in Divers Lands, but in the same Cities, Towns and Streets, yea, among men that publicly profess the same Religion in Name and Generals, that this difference is found.
§. 7. 5. And were there no other cause of different conceptions than the different education of children by their parents, it would make a very great difference in the world. When one is brought up in Learning, and another in barbarism; one in reading and hearing Gods Word, and another in contemning and deriding it: One is taught to reverence Gods name and truth, and another to blaspheme them or despise them: One is taught one Religion and another another: One is taught to lay all his salvation on that which another is taught to abhorr. And it is not only in Divers Lands, but in the same Cities, Towns and Streets, yea, among men that publickly profess the same Religion in Name and Generals, that this difference is found.
§. 8. 6. And if Parents make no difference, yet Schoolmasters often will: With their Grammar learning, one teacheth his Scholars to deride such or such a party of Christians as Heretics, Heteroclites or anomalous; and others say the same of others, as they themselves do like or dislike: And Boys usually take deeply their Masters dictates, especially if they be cunning and malignant, and such as the Devil and flesh befriend.