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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
THE Second Part. OF GODS GOVERNMENT, AND MORAL WORKS. › Section 17: Of Love as the end of Faith.
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248. As Christ as Mediator is the summary means and way to the Father, to bring man home to his Creator; so Faith in Christ is a mediating Grace, to work in us the love of God: And as else-where I have oft said, The bellows of Faith kindling Love, and Love working by holy Obedience, Patience, Mortification, Gratitude and Praise, is the substance of all true Religion.
248. As Christ as Mediator is the summary means and way to the Father, to bring man home to his Creator; so Faith in Christ is a mediating Grace, to work in us the love of God: And as else-where I have oft said, The bellowes of Faith kindling Love, and Love working by holy Obedience, Patience, Mortification, Gratitude and Praise, is the substance of all true Religion.
249. Love being the final Grace, and Faith in Christ, but a means to 1it, the end must needs be more excellent than the means as such. And thus Paul giveth the pre-eminence to Love.
- 11 Cor. 12. last. & 13. 1. 2. 2. Whether the habit of Love in patria be better than that of Faith and Vision in genere morris only, or also in genere rei, the School-men are utterly disagreed. Cacere's sum. Theol. 22. q. 5. a. 1. Utrum in sola charitate supernaturali sit amicitia hominis ad Deum? Affirm. Quia D•us ut a••hor natura non ea communicat, quae sunt propria ejus, sed solum esse naturale & potentias quae, &c. The Reason is not so good as the Assertion. Vid. Bradward. li. 1. c. 1. cor. 30. Contra indoctos artis amandi, n•scientes Deum esse propter seipsum amandum, & c•tera propter Deum, omnesque actus humanos ad ipsum propter se finaliter ordinandos, ipsumque esse super omnia diligendum: and his following proof that God is not to be sinned against in the smallest of his Precepts, or in the smallest thing, to avoid the greatest pain, o obtain the greatest good imaginable.