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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.
46. If one side (that are all for the dead image of Christianity, and are not able to endure the serious practice of their own profession) would cease their Hypocrisy, and either be what they profess, or profess to be what they are, and would value the soul as well as the adorned Corps; And if the other side would lay by their pride and ignorance, and know how little indeed they know, and remember that in this Corporeal world, Religion must have a Body as well as a soul, the Church would the better escape them both.
46. If one side (that are all for the dead image of Christianity, and are not able to endure the serious practice of their own profession) would cease their Hypocrisie, and either be what they profess, or profess to be what they are, and would value the soul as well as the adorned Corps; And if the other side would lay by their pride and ignorance, and know how little indeed they know, and remember that in this Corporeal world, Religion must have a Body as well as a soul, the Church would the better escape them both.
47. Serious heartiness in prayer is more acceptable to God, than formal babbling in the most decent words; And God will bear with the rude expressions of his children, that have sincere desires. But yet before others our words also must be well ordered, that we be not a hindrance to them, and a shame to the work which we have in hand.
47. Serious heartiness in prayer is more acceptable to God, than formall babling in the most decent words; And God will bear with the rude expressions of his children, that have sincere desires. But yet before others our words also must be well ordered, that we be not a hindrance to them, and a shame to the work which we have in hand.
48. And in preaching, as affected jangling, and starched