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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.
1. There are sins of mere infirmity or imperfection in duty; as imperfection of sincere faith, love, hope, obedience, prayer, &c. 2. There are sins of sudden passion and surprise which the will habitually abhorreth, and the sinner quickly repenteth of. 3. There are sins of ignorance which a man knew not to be sins. 4. There are sins of mere forgetfulness. 5. Yea it is not all presumptuous sin that is a renouncing of our subjection: A faithful man knoweth that the least sin should be avoided, and he may know that vain jesting or idle words are a ⟨p. 179⟩sin; And he may be often guilty of these by some degree of presumption, that is, he may be tempted to think that all men being sinners, such a sin may stand with grace, and for want of due excitation not fear it or fly from it because it is a little one, as he would do from perjury, murder or some greater sin: No small evils or danger doth so much suscitate the soul to resist and avoid it as a greater doth: no man is so careful to avoid the prick of a pin as of a sword: This want of suscitation through the smallness of the thing, maketh less resistance and so some degree of presumption in all men.
1. There are sins of meer infirmity or imperfection in duty; as imperfection of sincere faith, love, hope, obedience, prayer, &c. 2. There are sins of sudden passion and surprize which the will habitually abhorreth, and the sinner quickly repenteth of. 3. There are sins of ignorance which a man knew not to be sins. 4. There are sins of meer forgetfulness. 5. Yea it is not all presumptuous sin that is a renouncing of our subjection: A faithful man knoweth that the least sin should be avoided, and he may know that vain jesting or idle words are a ⟨p. 179⟩sin; And he may be often guilty of these by some degree of presumption, that is, he may be tempted to think that all men being sinners, such a sin may stand with grace, and for want of due excitation not fear it or fly from it because it is a little one, as he would do from perjury, murder or some greater sin: No small evils or danger doth so much suscitate the soul to resist and avoid it as a greater doth: no man is so careful to avoid the prick of a pin as of a sword: This want of suscitation through the smallness of the thing, maketh less resistance and so some degree of presumption in all men.