This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1852 Excerpt: ...amongst which they first "One Sheet against the Malignants of all sorts," by Richard Baxter, Kiderminster, 165/. appeared. England had been stunned for twenty Chapter years with religious polemics. The forms of church V government, --presbyterianism and prelacy, the CUAS, claims of the independents and the clamours ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1852 Excerpt: ...amongst which they first "One Sheet against the Malignants of all sorts," by Richard Baxter, Kiderminster, 165/. appeared. England had been stunned for twenty Chapter years with religious polemics. The forms of church V government, --presbyterianism and prelacy, the CUAS, claims of the independents and the clamours ofADt646-S the sectaries, the respective rights of the pastors and the people, --were discussed in every pulpit; they distracted every parish and every house. The din was incessant, and it is surprising that true religion was not deafened by the clamour. But while piety and a right sense of the importance of what is real in religion continued to exist, those who were beneath its influence must have deplored the infatuation which diverted good men from whatever was most important; fixing their attention upon the accidents and circumstances rather than upon the true work of the church of Christ; upon the mode of its existence rather than the great ends for the sake of which its existence is decreed. Such were some of the anxieties of George Fox. In appearance he was a simple youth in humble circumstances, remarkable from his youth for strict veracity and a solitary life. At twenty his relations would have had him married; but he replied he was but a lad and must get wisdom. They urged him to join the parliamentary army; but though the bravest man in England perhaps, if moral courage is bravery, he detested the business of a soldier. Far other thoughts possessed his mind. He had been religiously educated by puritan parents of the church of England, and he was now awakening to the consideration of his eternal state. A Chapter young man of one-and-twenty, aroused to the V contemplation of his future being, and withdrawn, Chas. i. Dy the instan...
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