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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.
108. The Faith by which we are justified (as I touched before) hath God the Father for its object as essentially as Christ the Saviour; as the said Baptismal Covenant showeth; and that not only secondarily as Christ being the Mediator and way to the Father, our faith in Christ connoteth the final object; but also directly and primarily as the Father is the first in Trinity, and as Creator first related to us, and as the end is first in our intention: Joh. 17. 3. This is life eternal to know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou bast sent. Joh. 13. 1. Let not your hearts be troubled, you believe in God, believe also in me.
108. The Faith by which we are justified (as I touched before) hath God the Father for its object as essentially as Christ the Saviour; as the said Baptismal Covenant sheweth; and that not only secondarily as Christ being the Mediator and way to the Father, our faith in Christ connoteth the final object; but also directly and primarily as the Father is the first in Trinity, and as Creator first related to us, and as the end is first in our intention: Joh. 17. 3. This is life eternal to know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou bast sent. Joh. 13. 1. Let not your hearts be troubled, you believe in God, believe also in me.
109. And as essential is it to this Faith to believe in Christ as the Purchaser of Holiness and Heaven, as to believe in him as the purchaser of pardon; and to believe in him as the Teacher and Ruler of the Church, as to believe in him as the justifier of believers. The inseparableness of these acts is commonly confessed.
109. And as essential is it to this Faith to believe in Christ as the Purchaser of Holiness and Heaven, as to believe in him as the purchaser of pardon; and to believe in him as the Teacher and Ruler of the Church, as to believe in him as the justifyer of believers. The inseparableness of these acts is commonly confessed.