VI. Inference 2. To abate our censures and contempt of the less-learned Christians and churches.. ................ VII. Inference 3. How to judge of the knowledge VIII. Inference 4. The aptness of the teaching of PAGE IX. Inference 5. What great cause of thankfulness men have for the constitution of the Christian religion and how inexcusable they are that Quest. 1. If so much knowledge will save men as causeth them to love God, may not hea- thens be saved who know God to be good, and therefore may love him?..... Object. IV. How are infants saved that have neither knowledge nor love?..... Object. V. If this hold true, universities, and ibid. CHAP. XV. Use, Exhort. 1. Deceive not yourselves by over- XVI. Exhort. 2. Love best those Christians that .... XVII. Exhort. 3. Pretend not your knowledge ....XIX. Exhort. 5. Place your comfort in health and your comfort What comfort ...... V. How sad a case is it that I have described VI. The joyful state and blessing of good children, VII. Undeniable reasons for the repentance and amendment of those that have lived a fleshly PAGE .XIII. Counsel to parents and tutors of youth..... I. What shall befal the churches on earth, till their concord, II. How that restitution is likely to be made, (if ever,) and A thanksgiving for the deliverance of women, in child- Of pastoral discipline, public confession, absolution, and ex- clusion from the holy communion of the church A form of public admonition to the impenitent PAGE A form of rejection from the communion of the church A form of absolution and reception of the penitent... A form of thanksgiving, or prayer, for the restored penitent A larger Litany, or general prayer, to be used at discretion MR. BAXTER'S SENSE OF THE ARTICLES OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND: In answer to the scruples proposed to him by some that were called upon to sub- scribe them 1 52S A TREATISE OF KNOWLEDGE AND LOVE KNOWLEDGE COMPARED. IN TWO PARTS: I. OF FALSELY PRETENDED KNOWLEDGE. I. AGAINST HASTY JUDGING, AND FALSE CONCEITS OF KNOWLEDGE; AND FOR NECESSARY SUSPENSION. II. THE EXCELLENCY OF DIVINE LOVE, AND THE HAPPINESS OF BEING KNOWN AND LOVED OF GOD. WRITTEN AS GREATLY NEEDFUL TO THE SAFETY AND PEACE OF EVERY CHRISTIAN, AND OF THE CHURCH: THE ONLY CERTAIN WAY TO ESCAPE FALSE RELIGIONS, HERESIES, SECTS, AND MALIGNANT PREJUDICES, PERSECUTIONS AND SINFUL WARS: ALL CAUSED BY FALSELY PRETEN- NOT THEIR IGNORANCE. BY RICHARD BAXTER, Who by God's Blessing on long and hard Studies, hath learned to know that he knoweth but little, and to suspend his Judgment of Uncertainties, and to take great, necessary, certain Things, for the food of his Faith and Comforts, and the measure of his Church Communion. |