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The judgment of non-conformists about the difference between grace and morality

Name: The judgment of non-conformists about the difference between grace and morality
Author: Richard Baxter

Richard Baxter 1615–1691London : s.n., 1676

123 p. · 34k words · Wing B1292_VARIANT · ESTC R16284

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Title page

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.

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THE JUDGMENT OF NON-CONFORMISTS About the DIFFERENCE BETWEEN GRACE AND MORALITY.

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Printed in the Year, 1676.

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THE JUDGMENT OF NON-CONFORMISTS, &c.

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WHAT advantage the Enemy of God and Man hath got against Truth, Holiness, and Love, by the Divisions of Christians, and especially by the Contentions of their Teachers, Experience hath been long telling the Christian World, by smart and sorrow: Where Envy and Strife hath begun, Confusion and every Evil Work hath followed: Little Breaches tend to greater: The Cause which first made them, will make them wider, by calling in more Causes to its help and service. Distinct Parties have their distinct Interests, as to Commodity and Reputation: And, alas! what work will selfishness and fleshly interest make? What Moralities, what Untruths, Injustice, and Unmercifulness is it pregnant with? What Evil so great, that it will not first venture on, and then palliate, and next justify, and lastly propagate, if God do not mortify, or restrain it? The foresight of this Danger to the Land of our Nativity, moved some of Us to strive for the prevention of it, while we thought there was place for our Endeavours: But as our labour did but

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THE JUDGMENT OF NON-CONFORMISTS, &c.