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The second part of The nonconformists plea for peace being an account of their…
The second part of The nonconformists plea for peace being an account of their principles about civil and ecclesiastical authority and obedience ... : mostly written many years past, and now published to save our lives and the kingdoms peace, from the false and bloody plotters ... / 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.
13. This enmity proceedeth from the Carnal vicious inclination and interest of wicked men, and the unchangeable enmity of the word and way of God to such inclinations and interest, and the devoted resolution of all true Christians, to stick to Christ and take his part, and to fight against the flesh, the world and the Devil to the death.
14. The Godly must not, dare not, will not forsake their master and rule, and come over for peace to the way of the ungodly; because it will be too dear a peace, that is bought with the loss of God and heaven.
15. The wicked may change and come over to the Godly (and must, or be undone for ever) The enmity therefore is long of them.
16. It is not mere Learning, or civility, or a pastoral office, or knowledge and utterance for the Ministerial work, which will remove this enmity, from a Cainites heart; but it must be done by the true sanctification of the spirit, Joh: 3. 5, 6. Rom. 8, 6, 7, 8, 9.