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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.
225. There is assurance in this Faith; not assurance that we are s• cere, or shall be saved: But assurance that Gods Promises and all •• Words are true, and that he will perform them; and that Christ •• the Saviour of the world, and that the love of God is our End •••• Happiness, and that all this is offered to us in Christ, even Pardon ••• Life, as well as others; which offer Faith accepteth truly; But the Believer is oft uncertain of the sincerity of his own belief, and so of •• Salvation.
226. How much certainty we have of Divine Revelation and Scripture verity, I have so fully opened in many Tractates, and lastly in o•• 1called [The certainty of Christianity without Popery] that I will not here repeat it, further than to say, that it is not a perfect apprehension which we call our certainty, nor yet an uneffectual doubtful one; But such • •• as will carry a man on confidence of Gods Word to a holy life, and •• the forsaking of all other hopes, even life it self, for the hopes which •• given us by Christ: which yet may have several degrees in several persons. But objective certainty, which is the evidence of verity, is m••• full than our subjective certainty (for want of our due receptivity •• us) and is still the same in it self, though not equally brought or revea•• to all.