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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.
10. He that ever made conscience of labouring faithfully for souls, cannot choose but know, how very hard a work it is to bring the vulgar to a true understanding of their Baptism, the Creed, the Lords Prayer and the Decalogue, (yea the very servants of our own families). And as Arch-Bishop Usher told King James in his Sermon on Eph. 4. 3. Let the best and learnedst of them try it when they will, they shall find what skill (and industry) is necessary to teach the people these principles that we all agree in: And to reproach them and us, for incongruities of speech, long before these necessary things can be learned, is to reproach the boys of the lowest form, and the Master with them, because they are not accurate Graecians.
10. He that ever made conscience of labouring faithfully for souls, cannot choose but know, how very hard a work it is to bring the vulgar to a true understanding of their Baptism, the Creed, the Lords Prayer and the Decalogue, (yea the very servants of our own families). And as Arch-Bishop Vsher told King James in his Sermon on Eph. 4. 3. Let the best and learnedst of them try it when they will, they shall find what skill (and industry) is necessary to teach the people these principles that we all agree in: And to reproach them and us, for incongruities of speech, long before these necessary things can be learned, is to reproach the boys of the lowest form, and the Master with them, because they are not accurate Graecians.
11. It is in most places but the far smaller part of the people, that we can ever bring to so much as aforesaid; And the greater part in most places are still ignorant and unwilling to learn, or mere worldlings and servants to the flesh, and great neglecters of all that is higher than their belly and their eye-sight.
11. It is in most places but the far smaller part of the people, that we can ever bring to so much as aforesaid; And the greater part in most places are still ignorant and unwilling to learn, or meer worldlings and servants to the flesh, and great neglecters of all that is higher than their belly and their eye-sight.