Baxter - BT767 B28 1662

'Clergy. If you are but fure you know ~read and rPine ~7 hen you fee, and feel, andjmell ,_ and tafle them , then you are at the end or controverfi~ with the Papifl:s. Above all , fee that you maintain the Love of God , and la heavenly mind, and mortified affe~ions, and grow not opinionative, fupedicial or loofe in your Religion : For he that is heartily of no~.. ligien, is prepared to be,of any Religion : And it is becaufe men are falfe to .the ackno\JVledged · Truth, that they are given up to make a Reli– gion of deceit and falfbood: Your fidelity to your King ·and Countrey , obligeth you to do your part to preferve the fu~jeets from a difeafe .fo injurious to thetn. Saith Dr. Sherman in his ' · late [ Account of Faitb J ag1infl: the PapiA: 7 Pref. P·· 4, 5. [If f\ings would think upon it, there might .be no Popes; ' Jince if Popes could :well Jhelp .it, there jhould be no f\.ings. ] , 5· Take heed of all temptations to turbule11~ cy, ·refifl:ingof Authority , or other unlaw fuH means in the obeying of your pafsions or diG contents. As God chofe moll: eminently to · Glorifie his Power under the Law of JPorks and .the /pirit of bondage to fear didmuih prevail'; but under the Gojpel he hath chofen ·mofl: eminently ~<>. l_?lagnifie h!! Goodnefs, LoqJ~ and ~ercy; fo ~c.. (a) cor~ingly_ · r

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