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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.
And by this instance you may see how near some men agree, that seem much to differ. But as to them that insist on it, that the Gospel and ⟨p. 44⟩New Covenant are no Laws, and that we have none from Christ but the Decalogue and Old Testament; were I to write against them to purpose, I would plentifully prove them Subverters of Christianity it self, and give full evidence against them, to any that believe the holy Scriptures. And contrarily I would prove, that there are no Divine Laws but what are truly the Laws of our Redeemer, now in the world, and that all Infidels are ruled, and shall be judged by a Law of Grace, though not of the last evangelical Edition; and that he that feareth not breaking the Laws of Christ, shall hear at last; Those mine Enemies that would not that I should Reign over them, bring them hither and slay them before me, Luk. 19. 27.a
- aThat Christ is truly a King, and so a Law-Giver, and hath proper Laws, and not only Doctrine; (and how great an injury some Protestants have do•e the Church by denying (besides the Antinomians) See Suar•z, de Leg. l. 10. c. 1. whose proofs of the thing are unanswerable; And I have long ago proved it in other Writings. But Suarez asserting that Christ's Law is only Moral and Ceremonial, (in the Sacraments) and not judicial, doth plainly confess that God never instituted the Papacy and their Discipline: Yea he saith, (c. 2. p. 812. [Christus in sua l•ge nihil de praec•ptis judicialibus statuit: etiam si in Ecclesia Christi ut talis est, aliquae leges judicials si•t necessariae ad politicum regimen Ecclesiasticum, quod suo modo spirituale est; nihilominus noluit Christus dominus per se ipsum illas leges ferre, sed id Vicariis suis commisit, potestatem ad illas ferendas eis tribuendo: Et ideo illae Leges non sub Lege Divina, sed sub canonica computantur: Pr•prie igitur loquendo de Lege divina nova, in illa non inveniuntur praecepta judicialia.] So that Christ never made the Papacy, nor any of its Laws. But indeed he appointed Baptism as our Church-entrance, and more than a Ceremony: and the state of Cuch Officers, and their work and discipline,