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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.
49. The frothy empty wits are aptest to nauseate and scorn an incongruous expression, in the most serious useful Sermon which they hear; And their temptation must not be cherished by our negligence of speech. But yet God usually blesseth the labours of plain and hearty serious preachers, though they speak not every word in Print. And godly serious humble Auditors have not such queasy stomachs as to make a great matter of a word or syllable or sound and tone, when they perceive that the matter is sound and wholesome, and the manner plain and close.
49. The frothy empty wits are aptest to nauseate and scorn an incongruous expression, in the most serious useful Sermon which they hear; And their temptation must not be cherished by our negligence of speech. But yet God usually blesseth the labours of plain and hearty serious preachers, though they speak not every word in Print. And godly serious humble Auditors have not such queasie stomachs as to make a great matter of a word or syllable or sound and tone, when they perceive that the matter is sound and wholesome, and the manner plain and close.
50. That pride and emptiness of solid matter, which maketh men loath such wholesome teaching, for want of a neatness in phrase and stile, doth often lead them at last to quarrel with the stile and phrase of Scripture, and to be Infidels in heart, while for profit and honour they seem to keep up a trade of Clergy-Christianity.
51. When great secular and personal interests stand up in any Nation against serious Christianity, or against the most devoted serious preachers of it, Arguments and Innocency then signify nothing: Interest hath neither eyes nor ears; The faithful must patiently wait in suffering, till the righteous God shall plead their cause, Psal. 12.