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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.
87. The question whether any besides Christians are put into a possib• lity of Salvation is easily and certainly resolved in the affirmative from 1what is said: But the question whether any or how many are actua••y saved, doth depend on the resolution of the question, whether any of them are truly sanctified, that is, [do truly love God and Holiness, ab••• the Pleasures, Profits and Honours of this world.] For nothing is mo•• certain in Gods Word, than that all that do so shall be saved: For a ••• to live in Hell with the predominant love of God, is as great a contradiction, ⟨p. 49⟩as for a man to be sick in health, and both in the greater degree. God cannot damn or forsake a Soul that loveth him and is holy, (in sensu composito.)
- 1Subit me certe subinde (ita ista dum lego, affectum me sentio, & ingenue agnosco) non stupor duntaxat, sed horror etiam, cum arcani Divini admiration v•hementissima conjunctus, serio apud me reputantem, quam longe in multis ab •o absim quod de se vir iste, veri ad salutem perduc•ntis tramitis ignarus, de se profitetur, nec quin vere & ingenuem, ambigi posse videtur: ut proinde & Marco & Epict•••• tin• assurgens Hymnum illius vel maxi•o majorem & prastantiorem decantare jugiter debeam—Gataker Proloq. • Antoninum. Read the multitude of Testimonies of the Virtues of Antonine, collected by Gataker post opera. Fuit Marcus Antoninus, vir omnium •irtutum & sanctitate vitae praecipuus, coelestisque ingenii. S• bast. Munster. Cosmogr. li . Bonitatis ac sapientiae numine ab omnibus dum viveret in ea estimation bonoreque habitus, qua nemo unquam vel ate ips, quod nvius post isum fuerit.—Nunquam ita conspirarunt scriptores, in tribuendo cuiquam quaecunque pterant boitatis, inte tis, innocentiae, cujusvis den que tituli apud thnicos speciosissmi testimonia: Celebrant illum non tantum ut principe opti, simpliciter & absolute ut ominem optimum & philosophum optimum omnium qui uquam extiterunt. Estque hoc ipsus peculiae eco quod ita prdicetur, citra exceptionem llam praedicatur. Mer. Causabon. Praef. in Vers. Angl. ut citat. per Gataker.