A26883:1607
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.
243. So weak is Faith in most that are sincere, and so little kept in exercise, and so strong is sense, and self, and flesh, and worldly b•its and interest, and Satan's temptations, that in my experience (who have conversed with as many that are careful of their Souls as most have done I think) it is a very small number that I could ever hear say, I am certain of my Justification and Salvation; But a great number who have lived in holy confidence, hope and peace, and some in great joy, but most in tolerable fears and doubting, and some few oppressed by those doubts. So that certainty of Salvation is very rare.
243. So weak is Faith in most that are sincere, and so little kept in exercise, and so strong is sense, and self, and flesh, and worldly b•its and interest, and Satan's temptations, that in my experience (who have conversed with as many that are careful of their Souls as most have done I think) it is a very small number that I could ever hear say, I am certain of my Justification and Salvation; But a great number who have lived in holy confidence, hope and peace, and some in great joy, but most in tollerable fears and doubting, and some few oppressed by those doubts. So that certainty of Salvation is very rare.
244. When Bellarmine saith, that our assurance more belongeth to Hope than Faith, and that it is but moral certainty by signs that we have of our Justification, Sincerity and Salvation, he so little differeth from the sense of almost all godly Protestants, that were it not through other ⟨p. 91⟩distances, and partiality, we had never read in Luther's days, that for this one point alone, we have cause enough of our alienation from the Romanists.