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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.
On the other side, if I do but open the undeniable Mercies of God to all, which all the world hath experience that they possess, and that Covenant of Grace which the whole current of Scripture proveth the• under, some men that are so very wise in their own eyes, as hardly to suspect any thing to be an error which they have long held, and that build much of their Religion and Theological Reputation, in adhering to the Opinions of those whose communion they think most honoureth them, and out of a blind zeal for that which they account Orthodox, will presently without impartial consideration, or friendly debate, •• gisterially pass their judgment among those that reverence them, and backbite those that they cannot confute, and say, [Such a man holdeth dangerous Opinions, that Infidels may be saved,] and it's like falsely represent my words. When yet the same men perhaps will maintain that all the Elect are justified before they believe, and so that Infidels, even privative, are justified, so they be but elect: And this seemeth to them no injury to Christ: so powerful is prejudice, and pride, a•• partiality.
On the other side, if I do but open the undeniable Mercies of God to all, which all the world hath experience that they possess, and that Covenant of Grace which the whole current of Scripture proveth the• under, some men that are so very wise in their own eyes, as hardly to suspect any thing to be an error which they have long held, and that build much of their Religion and Theological Reputation, in adhering to the Opinions of those whose communion they think most honoureth them, and out of a blind zeal for that which they account Orthodo•, will presently without impartial consideration, or friendly debate, •• gisterially pass their judgment among those that reverence them, and backbite those that they cannot confute, and say, [Such a man holdeth dangerous Opinions, that Infidels may be saved,] and it's like falsly represent my words. When yet the same men perhaps will maintain that all the Elect are justified before they believe, and so that Infidels, even privative, are justified, so they be but elect: And this seemeth to them no injury to Christ: so powerful is prejudice, and pride, a•• partiality.