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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.
103. God by commanding faith and repentance, and making the• necessary conditions of Justification, and by commanding perseverance, and threatening the Justified and Sanctified with damnation if they f•• away; and making perseverance a condition of Salvation, doth thereby provide a convenient means for the performance of his own Decree, of giving Faith and Repentance and perseverance to his Elect; For he effecteth his ends by suitable moral means; and such is this Law and Covenant, to provoke man to due fear, and care and obedience, that he may be wrought on as a man.
103. God by commanding faith and repentance, and making the• necessary conditions of Justification, and by commanding perseverance, and threatning the Justified and Sanctified with damnation if they f•• away; and making perseverance a condition of Salvation, doth thereby provide a convenient means for the performance of his own Decree, of giving Faith and Repentance and perseverance to his Elect; For he effecteth his ends by suitable moral means; and such is this Law and Covenant, to provoke man to due fear, and care and obedience, that he may be wrought on as a man.
104. To be justified by Faith in general, agreeth to the ages before 1Christ's Incarnation, and those since: But so doth not the special kind of faith by which they are justified. For much more is Essential to that faith which we must be justified by to them that are under the last edition of the Covenant of Grace, than was (or is) to them that were under the first alone. Abraham believed not all our essential Articles of faith.
104. To be justifyed by Faith in general, agreeth to the ages before 1