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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.
33. The entire Law of God which the Israelitish Nation was under had all these parts. 1. The remaining preceptive and directive part of the Law of Nature. 2. The Universal Covenant of Grace made with all mankind in Adam and Noah, and personally renewed to Abraham for himself and his posterity. 3. The special promise to Abraham and his seed as a peculiar people of whom the Messiah should come. 4. The body of the Law of Moses as a Law for that Common-wealth or Polity (which was not so given to any other Common-wealth or Nation.)*
33. The entire Law of God which the Israelitish Nation was under had all these parts. 1. The remaining preceptive and directive part of the Law of Nature. 2. The Universal Covenant of Grace made with all mankind in Adam and Noah, and personally renewed to Abraham for himself and his posterity. 3. The special promise to Abraham and his seed as a peculiar people of whom the Messiah should come. 4. The body of the Law of Moses as a Law for that Common-wealth or Politie (which was not so given to any other Common-wealth or Nation.)*
- *L•g. Suarez de L•g. l. 9. who c. 6. distinguisheth of the Law strictly taken, and so it hath not (saith he) promises of eternal felicity; and the Law as including the promise to the Fathers; and so it had such promises. But those promises being the Soul of the Law should not by the Jews have ever been separated from the rest, in their conceits of it.
1. The first of these undoubtedly is still in force.