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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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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.
12. If the Great and Rich be bred up to better utterance, they are very happy persons among them, that are not more worldly, sensual and profane; yea and more ignorant too of the matters of salvation, how knowing soever as to words.
12. If the Great and Rich be bred up to better utterance, they are very happy persons among them, that are not more worldly, sensual and prophane; yea and more ignorant too of the matters of salvation, how knowing soever as to words.
13. That Pastor who preferreth this ungodly sort before the faithful now described, and that gathereth together all the weak expressions of the later, to make them ridiculous to the former; or (if with no such intent) doth proclaim them persons of a foolish Religion, because they cannot talk so wisely as they ought about religion, and this at a time and in a manner, as is likest to harden the sensual in the opinion that their case is the better, and that learning and labouring to be seriously religious, is but a foolish fanciful thing; I say, that Pastor is— Let his conscience hereafter tell him what.