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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.
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.
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 justifie 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.
185. It is arrogant folly to divide the praise of any good act between God and Man, and to say God is to have so many parts, and Man so many: For the whole is due to God, and yet some is due to Man: For man holdeth his honour only in subordination to God, and not dividedly in co-ordination: And therefore all is due to God: For that which is Mans is Gods, because we have nothing but what we have received. But he that arrogateth any of the honour due to God or Christ, offendeth.
186. If all had been taken from Gods honour which had been given to the Creature, God would have made nothing, or made nothing Good;- Heaven and Earth, and all the World would derogate from his honour; and none of his Works should be praised: And the better any man is, the more he would dishonour God; and the wickeder the les. But he made all Good, and is Glorious in the Glory, and honourable in the honour of all: And to justify the holiness of his Servants is to justify him.