Richard Baxter wrote these words:
" Let not your first opinions, about the controverted difficulties in religion, where Scripture is not very plain, be too peremptory, confident or fixed; but hold them modestly with a due suspicion of your unripe understandings, and with room for further information, supposing it possible, or probable, that upon better instruction, evidence and maturity, you may, in such things, change your minds."
A Christian directory page 49
I was struck by the idea that some of our ideas are not ripe and need time to mature. I needed this exhortation from another century today.
