A26883:1592
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.
228. Doubting of mans own Salvation, is not always from weakness of Faith directly, much less is it the want of Faith it self. •o• sometime a man may doubt, merely as doubting of the sincerity of •• own Faith, and not at all doubting of the truth of the Word of God▪ But when it is the doubting whether the promises be sure, which make• a man doubt whether he shall be saved, this doubting is the debility •• Faith.
228. Doubting of mans own Salvation, is not always from weakness of Faith directly, much less is it the want of Faith it self. •o• sometime a man may doubt, meerly as doubting of the sincerity of •• own Faith, and not at all doubting of the truth of the Word of God▪ But when it is the doubting whether the promises be sure, which make• a man doubt whether he shall be saved, this doubting is the debility •• Faith.
229. The same may be said of despair: That despair is from the weakness or want of Faith, which cometh from an unbelief of the truth of the Promise: And that also is pernicious despair which (from what Cause soever) is so great as to take men off the use of necessary means, to attain Salvation. But that despair which cometh from overmuch self-condemning, and a conceit that a mans heart is false, and not that Gods Promise is false, may stand with true Faith and Salvation, if it be not so great, as to take him off the use of necessary means.