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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.
1. As to the Act; and so the word Repentance signifieth only the Aversion of the Soul from evil, by sorrow and change of mind: And this is the strict formal notion of the word, though usually it be taken more largely, as including also the Conversion of the Soul to Good; which is the usual Scripture and Theological sense; though the word it self do chiefly signify the Averting act.
1. As to the Act; and so the word Repentance signifieth only the Aversion of the Soul from evil, by sorrow and change of mind: And this is the strict formal notion of the word, though usually it be taken more largely, as including also the Conversion of the Soul to Good; which is the usual Scripture and Theological sense; though the word it self do chiefly signifie the Averting act.
2. As to the Object, 1. Repentance sometime signifieth the Turning of the Soul from Sin and Idols to God as God; And so Repentance towards God, is distinguished from Faith towards our Lord Jesus Christ. 2. And sometimes it signifieth only the turning of the Soul and life from some particular Sin.
203. Repentance as it is the turning of the Soul from sin and Idols 1to God, is the same with Faith in God in the large Covenant-sense, and includeth Faith in God in the narrower sense. Repentance as it is our Turning from Infidelity to Christianity is the same with Faith in Christ in the large Covenant-saving-sense, and includeth Faith in Christ in the narrower sense (as it is mere Assent). Repentance as it is a Turning from the Flesh to the Holy Ghost as our Sanctifier, is the same thing as our Faith in the Holy Ghost in the large Covenant sense, and includeth Faith in the Holy Ghost in the narrower sense. But when they are the same thing, the ratio nominis or formal notion is not the same. As man's mind is not so happy as to conceive of all things that are one by one entire single Conception; so we are not so happy in our language, as to have words enough to express things entirely by one name; but we must have several words to express our inadequate conceptions by. And so that is called Repentance as the