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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26958	A moral prognostication I. what shall befall the churches on Earth, till their concord, by the restitution of their primitive purity, simplicity, and charity, II. how that restitution is like to be made, (if ever) and what shall befall them thence-forth unto the end, in that golden-age of love / written by Richard Baxter ...	Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691.	1680 (1680)	Wing B1311; ESTC R5743	36,590	70

A Moral Prognostication I. What shall befall the Churches on Earth till their Concord by the Restitution of their Primitive Purity Simplicity and Charity II. How that Restitution is like to be made if ever and what shall befall them thence-forth unto the End in that Golden-Age of LOVE Written by Richard Baxter When by the KING's Commission we in vain treated for Concord 1661. And now Published not to Instruct the Proud that scorn to Learn nor to make them Wise who will not be made Wise But to Instruct the Sons of Love and Peace in their Duties and Expectations And to tell Posterity That the Things which befall them were Fore-told And that the Evil might have been prevented and Blessed Peace on Earth attained if Men had been but willing and had not shut their Eyes and hardened their Hearts against the Beams of Light and Love LONDON Printed for Thomas Simmons at the Princes-Arms in Ludgate-Street 1680. TO THE READER Reader IT is many Years since this Prognostication was written 1661 except the Sixteen last Lines but it was cast by lest it should offend the Guilty But the Author now thinketh that the Monitory Usefulness may over-weigh the Inconveniencies of Mens Displeasure at least to Posterity if not for the Present Age of which he is taking his Fare-wel His Suppositions are such as cannot be denyed Viz. 1. Eccles 1. 9. The Thing that hath been is that which shall be and that which is done is that which shall be done and there is no New Thing under the Sun 2. The same Causes with the same Circumstances will have the same Effects on Recipients equally disposed 3. Operari sequitur esse As Natures are so they act except where over-power'd 4. The Appetite Sensitive and Rational is the Principle of Motion and what any Love they will Desire and Seek 5. Therefore Interest will turn the Affairs of the World and he that can best understand all Interests will be the best Moral Prognosticator so far as Men are Causes of the Events 6. The Pleasing of God and the Happyness of their own and others Souls being the Interest of True Believers and Temporal Life Pleasure and Prosperity being the seeming and esteemed Interest of Unbelievers cross Interests will carry them contrary wayes 7. Contraries when near and Militant will be troublesome to each other and seek each others Destruction or Debilitation 8. The Senses and Experience of all Men in all Ages are to be believed about their proper Objects 9. Men of Activity Power and Great Numbers will have advantage for Observance and Success above those that are Modest Obscure and Few 10. Yet Men will still be Men and the Rational Nature will yield some Friendly Aspect towards the Truth 11. Those that are Ignorant and misled by Passion and carryed down the Stream by Men of Malignity or Faction may come to themselves when Affliction Experience and Considerateness have had time to work and may Repent and undo some-what that they have done 12. As Sense will be Sense when Faith hath done its best so Faith will be Faith when Flesh or Sense hath done its worst 13. Men that fix on a Heavenly Everlasting Interest will not be Temporizers and changed by the Worldly Mens Wills or Cruelties 14. When all Men have tired themselves with their Contrivances and Stirs Moderation and Peace must be the quiet State 15. When all Worldly Wisdome hath done its utmost an● Mens Endeavours are w●inged with the greatest Expectations God will be God and Blast what he Nilleth and will Over-rule all Things to the Accomplishment of his most Blessed will Amen On these Suppositions it is that the following Prognostications are founded which I must admonish the Reader not to mistake for Historical Narratives But I exhort him to know what Hath been and what Is if he would know what Will be and to make sure of Everlasting Rest with Christ when he must leave a sinful restless world A Moral Prognostication Of what must be Expected in the Churches of Christendome TILL THE GOLDEN AGE RETURNS OR Till the Time of True Reformation and Vnity 1. MAnkind will be Born in a State of Infancy and Nescience that is without actual Knowledge 2. Yea with a Nature that hath the innate Dispositions to sloath and to diverting pleasures and business and more than so to an aversness from those Principles which are needful to Sanctification and Heavenly Wisdom The Carnal Mind will have an Enmity against God and will not mind the things of the Spirit nor be subject to God's Law Rom. 8. 5 6 7 8. 3. Sound Learning or Wisdom in things of so high a Nature as are the matters of Salvation will not be attain'd without Hard Study and Earnest Prayer and Humble Submission to Instructions and all this a long time Patiently Endured or rather willingly and delightfully Performed 4. And if the Seeds of Wisdom be not Born with us in a capacious disposition of understanding but contrarily a Natural Unapprehensiveness Blocks up the Way even Time and Labour will never without a Miracle bring any to any great Eminency of Understanding 5. And they that have both Capacity and an Industrious Disposition must have also sound and able and diligent Teachers or at least escape the Hands of Seducers and of partial factious guides 6. There are few Born with good natural Capacities much less with a special dispositive acuteness and few that will be at the pains and patience which the getting of Wisdom doth require and few that will have the happiness of sound and diligent Teachers But fewest of all that will have a concurrence of all these three 7. Therefore there will be but few very Wise Men in the World Ignorance will be common Wisdom will be rare 8. Therefore Errour or false Opinions will be common For unless Men never think of the things of which they are Ignorant or Judge nothing of them one way or other they are sure to err so far as they Judge in Ignorance But when things of greatest Moment are represented as True or False to be believed or rejected the most Ignorant Mind is naturally inclined to pass its Judgment or Opinion of them one way or other and to Apprehend them according to the light he standeth in and to think of them as he is disposed So that Ignorance and Errour will concur 9. He that Erreth doth think that he is in the Right and Erreth not For to Err and to know that he Erreth in Judgment is a Contradiction and Impossible However in Words and Deeds a Man may Err and know that he Erreth 10. He that knoweth not and that Erreth perceiveth not that Evidence of Truth which should make him receive it and which maketh other Men receive it And therefore knoweth not that indeed another is in the right or seeth any more than he 11. Especially when every Man is a Stranger to anothers Mind and Soul as to any immediate inspection And therefore knoweth not