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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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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.
5. Those that have such Academical education, and polite wits, and expression, and can congruously discourse of Civil and Religious things, and have not the foresaid lively faith, Love and obedience to God, nor a heavenly mind and life are miserable persons, and cannot be saved in that condition, however they be esteemed in the world.
5. Those that have such Academical education, and polite wits, and expression, and can congruously discourse of Civil and Religious things, and have not the foresaid lively faith, Love and obedience to God, nor a heavenly mind and lise are miserable persons, and cannot be saved in that condition, however they be esteemed in the world.
6. Where both inward holiness and learning and utterance concur, it maketh men most serviceable to God and the Church, and an honour to their Religion.