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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.
183. As God is seen here in the Glass of his works, so he is to be loved and praised as so appearing: Therefore he that dishonoureth his work dishonoureth God, and hindereth his due love and praise; And his most lovely and honourable work on earth, is his holy Image on his Saints▪ And as Christ will come to be admired and glorified in them at last, so God must be seen and glorified in them here in some degree. And to deny the Glory of his Image is the malignants way of injuring him, and that in which the worst will serve you. He that will praise God as Creator and Redeemer must praise his works of Creation and Redemption: And is it the way of praising him as our Sanctifier to dispraise his work of Sanctification?
183. As God is seen here in the Glass of his works, so he is to be loved and praised as so appearing: Therefore he that dishonoureth his work dishonoureth God, and hindereth his due love and praise; And his most lovely and honourable work on earth, is his holy Image on his Saints▪ And as Christ will come to be admired and glorified in them at last, so God must be seen and glorified in them here in some degree. And to deny the Glory of his Image is the malignants way of injuring him, and that in which the worst will serve you. He that will praise God as Creator and Redeemer must praise his works of Creation and Redemption: And is it the way of praising him as our Sanctifyer to dispraise his work of Sanctification?
184. Those poor Sinners of my acquaintance who lived in the grosse•• sins against Conscience (as Drunkenness, Whoredom, &c.) have been glad enough of such doctrine, and forward enough to believe, that there is nothing in man that in any part can justify him, or that i• any part of righteousness, but it is all out of us in Christ, and therefore they are as justifiable as any: But Conscience will not let them believe it as they desire.