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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.
And in Doctrines Doctor Heylin tells you in the end of his Preface to the Life of A. B. Laud, what liberty of judgement the Church hath left, for how good reasons.
45. One of the greatest dividers and troubles of the Church through the world is the Lordly, proud, impatient ⟨p. 161⟩spirit of the Pastors; who when they should be as Nurses to the children of God, and should bear with their cryings and frowardness and foulness while they are breeding them up to a more mature and solid and peaceable temper, do treat with infants as with equals, and snuff at all the quarrels and complaints which they undergo, and look that before and without their education, they all be as wise and stayed as themselves, and are ready to bring their action at Law against every child that crieth or complaineth, and to turn them out of the family of God: And are so quite contrary to that tender and gracious spirit and example of Christ, that when they themselves should be as little children, and the servants of all, they are so proud and Lordly, that they cannot bear any contradiction, dissent or disobedience to their Laws and dictates; But set up a cry, as if the Church were all on a fire, and the enemy were at the gates, and all were undone, as soon as their imperious and imposing wills are neglected in a ceremony or an indifferent thing. God give his children tender Nurses.
45. One of the greatest dividers and troubles of the Church through the world is the Lordly, proud, impatient ⟨p. 161⟩spirit of the Pastors; who when they should be as Nurses to the children of God, and should bear with their cryings and frowardness and foulness while they are breeding them up to a more mature and solid and peaceable temper, do treat with infants as with equals, and snuffe at all the quarrels and complaints which they undergo, and look that before and without their education, they all be as wise and staied as themselves, and are ready to bring their actionat Law against every child that cryeth or complaineth, and to turn them out of the family of God: And are so quite contrary to that tender and gracious spirit and example of Christ, that when they themselves should be as little children, and the servants of all, they are so proud and Lordly, that they cannot bear any contradiction, dissent or disobedience to their Laws and dictates; But set up a cry, as if the Church were all on a fire, and the enemy were at the gates, and all were undone, as soon as their imperious and imposing wills are neglected in a ceremony or an indifferent thing. God give his children tender Nurses.