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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.
312. 8. That all this is done by the Intellects discerning of those solid Reasons, which prove to us the excellency, necessity and possibility of all the foresaid ends and objects. And he that knoweth not fixing and •olding Reasons for his Resolutions, cannot be expected to have fixed Resolutions.
313. 9. That these general Inclinations, Love, and Resolutions for God, for Means in general, for Christ and all the Essentials of Godliness and Christianity, are constant in the Godly; and virtually contain a Love of and Resolution for every known duty, and against every known Sin; but not actually: And these continue to show themselves in adhering practically to these Objects, and in the Practice of a Godly Life.
313. 9. That these general Inclinations, Love, and Resolutions for God, for Means in general, for Christ and all the Essentials of Godliness and Christianity, are constant in the Godly; and virtually contain a Love of and Resolution for every known duty, and against every known Sin; but not actually: And these continue to shew themselves in adhering practically to these Objects, and in the Practice of a Godly Life.
314. 10. That therefore Sin as Sin is hateful to every true Christian, and Godliness as such lovely: And that in respect of this radical general Habit, every true Christians love to God and Good is more than his averseness, and his hatred to Sin more than his love or Inclination to the created Good for which it is loved (For no man loveth Sin as Evil).