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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

seriously Religious and the House of Christ will be filled with Guests 42. Hereupon the Scandalous and Flagitious Lives of Common Protestants will be much cured For the Number of the Flagitious will grow small and Crimes will be under common Disgrace Besides that they will be punished by the Magistrate So that gross Sin will be a Marvail 43. The Books of plain Doctrine and holy Living with the Pacificatory Treatises of Reconcilers will then be most in Esteem and Use which now are so Dis-relished by turbulent discontented siding Persons And abundance of Controversal-Writings about Church-Government Liturgies Ceremonies and many other Matters will be forgotten and cast aside as useless Things For the Swords shall be made into Plow-Shares and Pruning-Hooks 44. The happy Example of that happy Prince and Country that shall begin and first accomplish this Work will be Famous through all the Protestant-Churches and will enflame such Desires of Imitation in them all and be such a ready Direction in the way that it will greatly expedite their answerable Reformation And the Famous Felicity of that Prince in the Reformation and Concord of his Subjects will kindle in the Hearts of other Protestant-Princes and States an Earnest Desire of the same Felicity And so as upon the Invention of Printing and of Guns the World was presently possessed of Guns and of Printed-Books that never before attained any such thing So here they that see the Happyness of one Kingdom brought about and see how it was done will have Matter enough before their Eyes both to excite their Desires and guide their Endeavours in the Means to bring all this to pass 45. The Protestant Kingdoms and States being thus Reformed and United in themselves will be enflamed with an earnest desire of the good of all other Churches and of all the World And therefore as Divines have held something called General Councils for the Union of all those Churches so these Princes will by their Agents hold Assemblies for maintaining Correspondency to the carrying on of the common good of the World by the Advantage of their United Counsels and Strength And then no Enemy can stand long before them For they that Love and serve them Zealously at home will venture their Lives for them Zealously abroad if there be Cause 46. The excellent and successful use of the Magistrates Government of the Churches in their Dominions will quite shame all the usurping claims of the Pope and General Councels and their mungrel Ecclesiastick Courts and all the train of Artifices and Offices by which their Government of the World is managed And the World and especially Princes will plainly see how much they were abused by their Usurpations and that there is no need of Pope or Cardinal nor any of those Officers or Acts at all But that these are the meer Contrivances of Carnal Policy to keep up an Earthly Kingdom under the name of the Catholick Church And also the Purity and Unity of the Reformed Churches where the vulgar have more Religion and Union than their Monasteries will dazzle the Eyes of the Popish Princes States and People And when they see better and especially the happiness of the Princes they will forsake the Usurper that had Captivated them by fraud and will assume their freedom and felicity And so the Roman Church-Kingdom will fall 47. The deluded Mahometans seeing the Unity and Glory of Christendom as they were before kept from Christ by the Wicked Lives and the Divisions of Christians thinking that we are far worse than they so now they will be brought to admire and honour the Christian Name and fear the Power of the Christian Princes And one part of them will turn Christians and the rest even the Turkish Power the Christians force by the Power of God will easily break And so the Eastern Churches will be delivered and reformed and the Mahometans come into the Faith of Christ 48. The poor scattered Jews also when they see the Glory and Concord of Christians will be convinced that Christ is indeed the true Messias And being Converted perhaps shall by the Christian Powers be some of them Re-established in their own Land But not to their antient peculiarity or policy and Law 49. And then the Christian Zeal will work to the Conversion of the poor Idolatrous Heathen World And part of them will yield to Reason and Faith and the rest by just victories be subdued And so the Kingdoms of the World will become the Kingdoms of the Lord and his Christ And the Gospel shall be Preached in all the World 50. And when the Kingdom of Grace is perfected and hath had its time the Kingdom of Glory shall appear upon the Glorious appearing of Christ our King and the Dead shall Arise and they that have overcome shall Reign with Christ and sit with him upon the Throne even as he overcame and is set down with the Father on his Throne Amen Even so come Lord Jesus John 17. 20 21 22 23 24. Neither Pray I for these alone but for them also which shall believe on me through their word that they all may be one as thou Father art in me and I in thee that they also may be one in us that the World may believe that thou hast sent me And the Glory which thou gavest me I have given them that they may be One even as we are One I in them and Thou in Me that they may be made perfect in One and that the World may know that thou hast sent Me and hast Loved them as thou hast Loved Me Father I will that they also whom thou hast given Me be with Me where I am that they may behold My Glory which thou hast given Me. Object But if this World should ever become so happy it would be more amiable and so be a greater snare to our Affections and make us willing to stay from Heaven Answer No Amiableness or Pleasantness stealeth the Heart from God or keepeth it from Heaven but that which hideth the Glory and Goodness of God and Heaven from our Minds or corrupteth and diverteth the will and affections by some inconsistency or contrarity But the spiritual excellency of the Reformed Concordant Church on Earth will so much more clearly Represent Heaven to our conceptions and give our Hearts so pleasant a foretast of it that above all things it will Excite our desires of that fuller Glory and call us most Powerfully to a Heavenly Mind and Life As the first-fruits and earnest do make us desire the Harvest and the full Possession And as now those that Live in the most Heavenly Society and under the most Excellent helps and means have usually more Heavenly Minds and Lives than they that in more tempting and distracting Company never enjoy such Heavenly beams Consectary ALL the Romish-Dreams of Church-Union arise from Ignorance of the true State and Interest of the Church and the true and necessary Terms of Union And all the Plots also of the Moderating Papists that Talk of a Political Church-Catholick having a Visible Constitutive or Governing-Head whether Monarchial the Pope or Aristocratical or Democratical the Patriarchs or a General-Council And that Talk of Universal Laws of this Church made by such a Universal-Head besides the Universal Laws of Christ And falsly feign the Councils called General in a Particular Empire called or ruled by one Emperour only in his own Dominions to have been Universal as to all the Catholick Churches on Earth And that feign these Councils to have been Infallible which so often erred and crost each other And that set the World upon the undeterminable Controversie Which were true General Councils and How many we must Receive and Conform to Whether only Four or Six or Eight and till what Age. And that would perswade the Christian World that what-ever diversity of Canons Customs or Church-Laws or Ceremonies are allowed among them it must all be done or held by this same Authority of the Pope or Council or Both to which though Forreign Kings and Bishops must all be subject and from which they must receive their Christianity and by which all their Reformations must be tryed And that none must be taken as Catholicks nor any Churches tolerated that hold not such a Factious Union under such an Usurping Head Personal or Collective But as Tertullian speaketh rather than endure such Wiser and Better Societies Solitudinem facerent vocarent Pacem And as a Worldy Clergy whose Church and Kingdom is only of and in this World would banish from it all save a Lifeless-Image which hath any Kin to Heaven and suffer none to Live in this World among them but themselves I say all this is 1. From Ignorance of the True Nature of the Christian Religion Church-State and Terms of Unity and Concord which I have lately opened in a Book Entituled The true and only Terms of the Concord of all the Churches 2. And from Contention about Ambiguous Words and Self-Conceitedness in their Controversies ignorantly thence raised which I have sought to End in a Book called Catholick Theology 3. And from vicious Passions and Partiality which I have sought to Heal in a Book called The Cure of Church-Divisions All written long since the Writing of this Foregoing Prognostication FINIS

which he hates with the pretence of his Authority and Name 29. Therefore they will call up their own and other Mens Zeal to defend those falshoods as for God and think that in so doing they do God Service 30. And the Interest of their own Place and Honour and Ends will secretly insinuate when they discern it not and will increase their Zeal against Opposers 31. Therefore seeing they are usually Many and Wise Men but few they will expect that Number should give the precedency to their Opinions and will call those Proud or Heretical that gain-say them and Labour to defame them as self-conceited Opinionative-Men 32. Therefore too many Godly Ministers will be great opposers of many of those Truths of God which they Know not and which they Err about and will help on the Service of Satan in the World And will be the Authors of Factions and Contentions in the Churches whilst too many are Proud Knowing nothing in those matters when they think they are most Orthodox but doting about Questions and Strifes of Words whereof cometh Envy Strife Railing Evil Surmisings Perverse Disputings of Men of Corrupt Minds in this and Destitute of the Truth 1 Tim. 6. 4 5. 33. And if many Good Men will Erroniously stand up against that Truth which any Man Wiser than themselves maketh known the Worldly and Malicious that have a manifold Enmity against it will be ready to strengthen them by their Concurrence and to joyn in the Opposition 34. Not they that are Wisest at a distance but they that are Nearest the People and are always with them are likest to prevail to make Disciples of them and bring them to their mind So great an advantage it is to Talk daily and confidently to Ignorant Souls when there is none to Talk against them and to make their Folly known 35. Especially if the same Men can get Interest in their Esteem as well as Neerness and make themselves Esteemed the Best or Wisest Men. 36. Therefore Jesuitical Worldly Clergy Men will always get about Great Men and insinuate into Nobles and will still defame them that are Wise and Good that they may seem odious and themselves seem excellent and so may carry it by deceitful Shews 37. And they will do their best to procure all Wise and Good Men that are against their Interest to be Banished from the Palaces of Princes and Nobles where they are lest their presence should confute their Slanderers and they should be as Burning and Shining Lights that carry their Witness with them where they come And also to bring them under publike stigmatizing Censures and Sufferings that their Names may be infamous and odious in the World 38. And Heretical Pastors will play a Lower Game creep into the Houses of silly People prepared by ignorance and Soul-disturbers to receive their Heresies 39. Between these two Sorts of naughty Pastors the WORDLY and the HERETICAL and also the Multitude of Weak erroneous honest Teachers the Soundest and Worthyest will be so few that far most of the People high and low are like to live under the Influences and Advantages of Erring-Men and therefore themselves to be an Erring People 40. In that Measure that Men are Carnal their own Carnal Interest will Rule them And both the WORLDLY and HERETICAL Clergy are Ruled by Carnal Interests though not the same Materially And the Honester Erring Ministers are Swayed by their Interests too much Insomuch that on this account is was no over-valuing of Tymothy or wrong to the other Pastors that it should plainly be said by Paul Phil. 2. 21 22. For I have no Man like Minded who will Naturally care for your State For all seek their own not the things which are Jesus Christs And Act. 20. 30. Of your own selves shall Men arise and speak perverse things to draw away Disciples after them Besides the Grievous Wolves which would not spare the Flocks 41. The Interest then of the WORLDLY Clergy will consist in pleasing the Great Ones of the World for Lordships and Worldly Wealth and Honour and to be made the Rulers of their Brethren and to have their Wills And the Interest of Hereticks will be to have Many to be of their Own Opinion to Admire them And the Interest of upright Ministers will be to please God and propagate the Gospel Increase the Church and Save Mens Souls Yet so that they have a Subordinate Interest for Food and Rayment and Families and necessary Reputation which they are too apt to overvalue 42. Therefore it will be the Great Trade of the WORLDLY Clergy to please and flatter the Rulers of the World and by all artificial Insinuations and by their Friends to Work themselves into their Favour and by Scorns and Calumnies to Work out all other that are against their Interest 43. And it will be the Trade of Hereticks to insinuate into the more ductile People especially as Ministers of Truth and Righteousness that have somewhat more excellent in Knowlenge or Holiness than the Faithful Ministers of Christ 44. And it will be the Work of Faithful Ministers to Save Mens Souls But with such various Degrees of Self-denyal or Selfishness as they have various Degrees of Wisdom and Holiness 45. Many Great and Piously disposed Princes like Constantine will think that to Honour and Advance the Clergy into Worldly Power and Wealth is to Honour God and the Christian Religion And Great Munificence is fit for their own Greatness 46. And because such Honour and Wealth cannot possibly be bestowed on All it must make a great Disparity and set some as Lords over the rest 47. And the unavoidable Weakness Passions and Divisions of the Clergy will make Rulers think that there is a Necessity that besides the Civil Government there should be some of their Own Office to Rule the rest and to keep them in order obedience and Peace 48. Ambition and Covetousness will abuse this Munificence of Princes And whilst that any Church Preferments are so Great beyond the Degree of a meer encouraging Subsistence as to be a strong Bait to tempt the desires of a Proud and Worldly Mind the most Proud and Worldly that are within the reach of Hope will be the seekers by themselves and by their Friends 49. Mortified Humble Heavenly Men will either never Seek them or with no gre●● Eagerness their Appetite being less and their Restraints much greater 50. Therefore they that have the Keenest Appetites to Church-grandure and Preferments and are the Eager Seekers are likest to find 51. Therefore the Lovers of Wealth and Honour are likest still to be Lords among the Clergy except in such marvellous happy Times when Wise and Pious Princes Call the more Worthy that seek it not and reject these thirsty seekers 52. The greatest Lovers of Worldly Wealth and Honour are the worst Men 1 Joh. 2. 15. Jam. 4. 4. c. 53. Therefore except in such times as aforesaid the worst Men will be still the Rich and