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Rich. Baxters apology against the modest exceptions of Mr. T. Blake and the digression…
Rich. Baxters apology against the modest exceptions of Mr. T. Blake and the digression of Mr. G. Kendall whereunto is added animadversions on a late dissertation of Ludiomæus Colvinus, aliaà Ludovicus Molinæs̳, M. Dr. Oxon, and an admonition of Mr. W. Eyre of Salisbury : with Mr. Crandon's Anatomy for satisfaction of Mr. Caryl.
London: printed by A.M. for Thomas Underhill, 1654
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But though I make light of our seeming difference about sealing, I must entreat you to remember, that I not only maintain my former Assertion, that the Conclusion, I A. B. am Justified, is not de fide, but that I account it a matter of far greater moment.
But though I make light of our seeming difference about sealing, I must intreat you to remember, that I not only maintain my former Assertion, that the Conclusion, I A. B. am Justified, is not de fide, but that I account it a matter of far greater moment.
It hath been too common Doctrine among the most renowned Divines, that it is not only de fide, but every mans duty also, yea a part of the Creed, and so a fundamental, for to Believe that our sins are remitted, (for so they expound the Article of Remission of sins). I will not name the Authors, because I honour ⟨p. 143⟩them, and would not seem to disparage them; and the Learned know them already: yea they earnestly press men to Believe the pardon of their own sins in particular, and tell them that they have but the Faith of Devils else. By which dangerous Doctrine, 1. most men are persuaded to believe a falsehood: for most are not forgiven. 2. The careless world is driven on faster to presumption, to which they are so prone of themselves. 3. Painful Ministers are hindered, and their labours frustrated, whose business is first to break mens false hopes and peace; which they find so hard a work, that they need not resistance. The ungodly that I deal with, are so confident that their sin is forgiven, and God will not damn them for it, that all that I can say is too little to shake their confidence, which is the nurse of their sin. 4. Gods word, yea the Articles of our Creed, must be abused to do Satan this service, and mens Souls this wrong. All the world cannot find so strong a prop to the Kingdom of the Devil, nor so powerful an encouragement to presumption or any sin, as mistaken Scripture (either misinterpreted or misapplied). 5. When wicked men, that have but the Faith of Devils, are immediately required to believe the pardon of their own particular sins, and this made to be de fide, God is dishonoured with the charge of such untruths, as if falshoods were de fide, and God commanded men to believe them.