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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.
17. Abundance of particular occasions and differences may lye in sight, but underground this is the radical difference, which causeth most of the calamities of the Churches.
18. Especially if Cainites get into the Pastoral Chair, they have great advantage to fight against Christ in his own name, and scatter his flocks, and make Merchandise ⟨p. 152⟩of souls as by his own authority, and lay the blame of all on others; Till Christ shall come and gather his scattered ones and plead his own cause (which Rome is like to see with sorrow.)
18. Especially if Cainites get into the Pastoral Chair, they have great advantage to fight against Christ in his own name, and scatter his flocks, and make Merchandize ⟨p. 152⟩of souls as by his own authority, and lay the blame of all on others; Till Christ shall come and gather his scattered ones and plead his own cause (which Rome is like to see with sorrow.)
19. Yet even among the best the Principles and causes of divisions are proportionable to the remnant of their sins, and the family of Christ hath ever been troubled with the peevish quarrellings of his children.