A26883:1399
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.
89. Those therefore that teach the Church, that it is a certain truth, that no one in the world (Infant or Aged) is saved from Hell fire, but Christians only, and that this is not only certain to such great understandings as their own, but must be so to all true Christians, do but discover that they over-value their own understandings, and that siding hath contracted their thoughts and charity into a sinful narrowness, and that the Opinions of men, counted Orthodox, prevaileth more with them than the evidence of truth, and I think that they are to be numbered with those that by over-doing, do dangerously undermine the Christian Faith.
89. Those therefore that teach the Church, that it is a certain truth, that no one in the world (Infant or Aged) is saved from Hell fire, but Christians only, and that this is not only certain to such great understandings as their own, but must be so to all true Christians, do but discover that they over-value their own understandings, and that siding hath contracted their thoughts and charity into a sinful narrowness, and that the Opinions of men, counted Orthodox, prevaileth more with them than the evidence of truth, and I think that they are to be numbred with those that by over-doing, do dangerously undermine the Christian Faith.
90. The Texts urged by them for this pretended certainty, are all abused some of these ways: 1. Either some one difficult Text is expounded contrary to the current of the whole Scripture. 2. Or the words that are spoken only of privative Unbelievers who hear the Gospel, are expounded of negative not-Believers who never heard it, nor could do. 3. Or that which is said against Unbelievers in general, is expounded as against the non-Believers of the Articles of the Christian Faith which are superadded since Christ's Incarnation in special; As if all the Apostles before they believed Christ's Sacrifice, Resurrection, Ascension, &c. were Infidels in a state of damnation. 4. Or else they suppose (without proof) that the Spirit and Grace of Christ can extend it self to none that know him not as incarnate, crucified, risen, glorified, &c. (and so that the Apostles had no Grace till the Resurrection). Some such fallacy is in all these particular textual arguments, easily discernible.