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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. But these are Platonic Phantasms; And Gibieuf who was a devout Oratorian, and talketh too oft of our Deification, as Benedict•• de Benedictis, Barbanson, Baker, and other Fryers that talk fanatically, must be read with caution and exception; and as the Soul need not fear too near a Union with God, as the loss of its individuation, so neither must it desire or hope for such.
An. But these are Platonick Phantasms; And Gibieuf who was a devout Oratorian, and talketh too oft of our Deification, as Benedict•• de Benedictis, Barbanson, Baker, and other Fryers that talk phanatically, must be read with caution and exception; and as the Soul need not fear too near a Union with God, as the loss of its individuation, so neither must it desire or hope for such.
§. 10. M. S. An unchangeable state of Happiness in the love of God, is called Eternal Life.
An. No doubt but that is called Eternal Life in the fullest sense, which actually endureth to eternity as to that particular Subject: And so, 1. The life of Glory perfectively. 2. And a confirmed state of Sanctity here initially, are usually called Eternal Life. But 3. Whether the lossable state, which the Angels fell from, and Adam fell from, or that measure of Grace, which the ancient Fathers thought the justified may fall from, be never so called also, I cannot prove.