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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.
Thus far we are agreed de re: And then de nomine I willingly leave men to their way of speech. 1. If he will call God's Decree, his Covenant in Constitution. 2. If he will call the execution of his Decree, his Covenant in execution. 3. If he will call nothing else the Covenant of Grace, or at least nothing of narrower extent, but what comprehendeth God's eternal Decrees, and the promise and gift of a Redeemer, (and so of the rest,) I cannot help it; his language is his own. But I shall tell you further my thoughts de re & de nomine.
1. De re: 1. God's eternal decrees, purposes, or election, give no one right to Christ, Pardon or Life; and so justify no man.
1. De re: 1. God's eternal decrees, purposes, or election, give no one right to Christ, Pardon or Life; and so justifie no man.
2. The execution of God's Decrees, yea, of Election, hath many Acts besides Justification.