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Richard Baxter's Catholic theology plain, pure, peaceable, for pacification of the dogmatical word-warriors who,…Richard Baxter's Catholick theologie plain, pure, peaceable, for pacification of the dogmatical word-warriours who,…
Richard Baxter's Catholic theology plain, pure, peaceable, for pacification of the dogmatical word-warriors who, 1. by contending about things unrevealed or not understood, 2. and by taking verbal differences for real,Richard Baxter's Catholick theologie plain, pure, peaceable, for pacification of the dogmatical word-warriours who, 1. by contending about things unrevealed or not understood, 2. and by taking verbal differences for real,
London: printed by Robert White for Nevill Simmons, 1675
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
It was the appearance of more Spirituality and Strictness which drew Tertullian to the Montanists, and which promoted a great part of the Heresies which have torn the Churches. This bore up the Cause of the Priscillianists, and of those that Bernard and Cluniacensis so much inveigh against, (I suppose Manichees with some better persons mixed:) This kept up the Donatists; but above all the Novatians long in great reputation: This was the strength of the Anabaptists in Germany and the Low Countries, as their adversaries confess. Saith G. Wicelius Meth. Concord. c. 12. p. 42. [Retinctores hac una part duntaxat sapiunt, tenets doctrinam Ecclesiae Catholicae] speaking of the necessity of a holy life: This is the strength of the Quakers among us now, and of almost all the separating and Censorious Sects: And were not so excellent a thing as Godliness the Motive, abundance of good people durst never have done the great evils which we have seen done in this age, to the great shame of our profession, and the sad calamities of Church and State. (And if I my self have formerly in my unexperienced youth, promoted any dividing or unwarrantable ways, it was upon this and the former mistake; which I beg daily of God to discover to me to the full, and beg the pardon of the miscarriages which I know, and which yet I know not of.)
It was the appearance of more Spirituality and Strictness which drew Tertullian to the Montanists, and which promoted a great part of the Heresies which have torn the Churches. This bore up the Cause of the Priscillianists, and of those that Bernard and Cluniacensis so much inveigh against, (I suppose Manichees with some better persons mixt:) This kept up the Donatists; but above all the Novatians long in great reputation: This was the strength of the Anabaptists in Germany and the Low Countreys, as their adversaries confess. Saith G. Wicelius Meth. Concord. c. 12. p. 42. [Retinctores hac una parte duntaxat sapiunt, tenentes doctrinam Ecclesiae Catholicae] speaking of the necessity of a holy life: This is the strength of the Quakers among us now, and of almost all the separating and Censorious Sects: And were not so excellent a thing as Godliness the Motive, abundance of good people durst never have done the great evils which we have seen done in this age, to the great shame of our profession, and the sad calamities of Church and State. (And if I my self have formerly in my unexperienced youth, promoted any dividing or unwarrantable wayes, it was upon this and the former mistake; which I beg daily of God to discover to me to the full, and beg the pardon of the miscarriages which I know, and which yet I know not of.)