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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.
67. Great Preferments, power, wealth and fullness are Great Temptations.
67. Great Preferments, power, wealth and fulness are Great Temptations.
68. They that Love these best, are the worst men, and unfittest for the Ministry, as having least the Love of God and holiness and heaven and souls. 1 John 2. 15, 16. Phil. 3. 18.
69. They that Love these best, are likeliest to get them because they will use all their wit and industry to get them: And he that seeketh is likest to find.
70. Therefore whilst the Ministry is in a state of great worldly wealth and honour and power and fullness, and so of Temptation, the worst men are likest to be the Pastors of the Church, except where Princes of rare piety do prevent it.