Baxter - BV649 B3 1670

stais b C.r.ojcs ef fto-L; erruur. ltval office , nor the profeffion of the highe& zeal, whichwill ferve turn to cure the carnal en- mity, without the fanctifying fpirit of grace. So that when controverfïes arife, wefee not in the hy- pocrites that carnal mind , which in the trietefi pro e(lìon, or greaten learning , or no& venera- ble function, will work againft the intereff of ho- linefs : But we are fure that there it i, though we know not the perfons in whom but by the full effeas. Thirdly, And note alfo that there is a mixture or remnant of this unhappy root and principle ea ven in the fanElified thenfelves. And it is hard in a controverfïe to perceive in eta,' felves, much more in others , how much our judgements may be moved by this party ; and what influence rr may have into our conclufions. So that all this maketh it but toomanife(T,, what a certainty there is ofperpetual differen- ces in the Church , upon all thefe forefaid ac- counts. Add alfo th sgreat and unavoidable caufe, that one err-ow leadeth in another: And no man being without force ; and every one being generative, and inferring rn.ore, what will it come to when all zhofe alfo lhall have their offfpring ? and the further they go, the more they will increafe and mul tifly ? And as the judgement by one is laid open to another (even as truch inferreth truth) fo the will is engaged, and efpoufethmens own opinions as their iriíerll; which, maketh them firetch their wits in !lady to maintain what once they havere- eived and afferted Aid ala$ how oftenhave I heard

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