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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
THE Second Part. OF GODS GOVERNMENT, AND MORAL WORKS. › A PREMONITION.
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.
An. This is all true.
§. 6. M. S. Do this and live, as the only terms of life are a Catholic and Theological axiom: Not the words; but Energetic Wisdom printed on the frame. And the meaning is, close with the last end; or with the true Universal God as such, which is the sum of the Decalogue: Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, &c. The Wills closing with God: And Obedience is in the subordinate faculties executing the pleasure of the Will.]
§. 6. M. S. Do this and live, as the only terms of life are a Catholick and Theological axiom: Not the words; but Energetick Wisdom printed on the frame. And the meaning is, close with the last end; or with the true Universal God as such, which is the sum of the Decalogue: Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, &c. The Wills closing with God: And Obedience is in the subordinate faculties executing the pleasure of the Will.]
An. 1. Obedience is first in the Will it self. 2. Tou do not intelligibly acquaint us whether by [Do this] you mean any sincere closing with God as▪ God and our End, above all Creatures, as the godly now do, though with culpable remissness and imperfections; or only the most perfect Love and Obedience, without any imperfection or remissness, or vain irregular thought that is culpable. But by [Do this] I perceive you mean, Take God for thy God, and love, adore, and trust him.