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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
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2. Spiritual knowledge is not born with the children of Christians, but it must cost as much labour in us to teach, and in them to learn, the doctrine of the Gospel, and the nature and work and hopes of Christianity, perhaps as if they were the children of some heathens. Their birth privilege without our labour will not make them wise and faithful and obedient Christians.
2. Spiritual knowledge is not born with the children of Christians, but it must cost as much labour in us to teach, and in them to learn, the doctrine of the Gospel, and the nature and work and hopes of Christianity, perhaps as if they were the children of some heathens. Their birth priviledge without our labour will not make them wise and faithful and obedient Christians.
3. The most among us are so dull of understanding, and so averse to spiritual and heavenly things, and so drowned in sin, and taken up with the flesh and the world, that the cure of their souls is a very great and difficult work, and must by us and them be carried on at leisure, by great diligence and usually by slow degrees.
4. True Grace and virtue will not (usually) supply the want of learning or Urbanity, and of an Academic or ingenuous education; nor will make men of Rustic wits and breeding, to have compt, polite and elegant speech: Though yet it may suffice to save their souls.
4. True Grace and virtue will not (usually) supply the want of learning or Urbanity, and of an Academick or ingenuous education; nor will make men of Rustick wits and breeding, to have compt, polite and elegant speech: Though yet it may suffice to save their souls.