A26883:1721
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.
318. 14. For he is not sincerely willing to know a Truth, to do a •uty, to forsake a Sin, who is not willing to use the known necessary beaus appointed for these ends. For he vilifieth God and Holiness who •inketh them not worthy the seeking by such means. To say, would love God and please him and be saved, if I could do it •ith a wish or without these means, is no saving desire.
318. 14. For he is not sincerely willing to know a Truth, to do a •uty, to forsake a Sin, who is not willing to use the known necessary •eaus appointed for these ends. For he vilifieth God and Holiness who •inketh them not worthy the seeking by such means. To say, would love God and please him and be saved, if I could do it •ith a wish or without these means, is no saving desire.
119. 15. And to desire to be delivered from Sin, and to hate it • Sin, and yet to love it for the pleasure so much more, as that the •terest of God and Heaven in us, is not strong enough to make us habitually willing both to leave it, and to avoid the temptations, and •se the pleasure, but men had rather keep it than leave it on these arms; this is no sincere repentance, nor sign of a holy heart or life.
119. 15. And to desire to be delivered from Sin, and to hate it • Sin, and yet to love it for the pleasure so much more, as that the •terest of God and Heaven in us, is not strong enough to make us hatually willing both to leave it, and to avoid the temptations, and se the pleasure, but men had rather keep it than leave it on these rms; this is no sincere repentance, nor sign of a holy heart or life.