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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.
201. Repentance is a Dispositio materiae recipientis too, and a part of the condition of the Covenant: And so far a Material or dispositive Receiving Cause: But not an Acceptance of the Gift formally, in its averting act.
202. Faith and Repentance are words used in Scripture in divers significations. 1As Faith is sometimes taken for bare Assent, as Jam. 2. and usually for Affiance or Trust, and always when it denominateth a Christian or Justified Believer as such, it essentially includeth all the three parts, Assent, Consent, and Affiance, but yet denominateth the whole by a word which principally signifieth One act (which commonly is Affiance as including the other two); so Repentance is sometime taken comprehensively for the whole Conversion of a Sinner to God, the Father, Son and Holy Ghost; and so it includeth Faith in the narrower sense, and is the same thing as Faith in the larger sense, but expressed under another formal notion. Sometimes it is taken more narrowly, and that 1. As to the Act. 2. As to the Object.
202. Faith and Repentance are words used in Scripture in divers significations. 1As Faith is sometimes taken for bare Assent, as Jam. 2. and usually for Affiance or Trust, and always when it denominateth a Christian or Justified Believer as such, it essentially includeth all the three parts, Assent, Consent, and Affiance, but yet denominateth the whole by a word which principally signifieth One act (which commonly is Affiance as including the other two); so Repentance is sometime taken comprehensively for the whole Conversion of a Sinner to God, the Father, Son and Holy Ghost; and so it includeth Faith in the narrower sence, and is the same thing as Faith in the larger sence, but express'd under another formal notion. Sometimes it is taken more narrowly, and that 1. As to the