A26883:1395
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.
86. Though God hath said less to us of their case that hear not the Gospel, than of Believers and Unbelievers (privative, *that hear it) because it less concerneth us to know it, and to be busy in judging the Servants of another, yet in this point are mens confide••• and opposition most vehement. On one side some say, [Before I would believe that God hath shut all the millions of the Earth, fro• Adam's days till now, save a few Jews and Christians, out of all possibility of Salvation, so that they are left as the Devils without he•• hope or means, and perish Infants and all merely because God wi•• have it so, and that in everlasting fire; I will easilier believe that the Gospel is not true, as having less of Natures light to condemn me, th•• for receiving such thoughts of the infinitely Good and merci••• God.]
86. Though God hath said less to us of their case that hear not the Gospel, than of Believers and Unbelievers (privative, *that hear it) because it less concerneth us to know it, and to be busie in judging the Servants of another, yet in this point are mens confide••• and opposition most vehement. On one side some say, [Before I would believe that God hath shut all the millions of the Earth, fro• Adam's days till now, save a few Jews and Christians, out of all possibility of Salvation, so that they are left as the Devils without he•• hope or means, and perish Infants and all meerly because God wi•• have it so, and that in everlasting fire; I will easilier believe that the Gospel is not true, as having less of Natures light to condemn me, th•• for receiving such thoughts of the infinitely Good and merci••• God.]