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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 23: More necessary Concessions.
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SECT. XXIII. More necessary Concessions.
332. But yet all this is not enough to prove that any of the justified do totally or finally fall away. The controversy must not be decided by arguments from convenience, but by Scripture assertion; where the difficulty is very great, because no small number of Texts seem to favour both the opinions, the reconciling of which is not the work of every ordinary understanding. Those that are brought for the certain Perseverance of all the justified may be seen in Zanchy's Disputes with Marbachius, (the first hot and high agitation of this controversy as a matter of great moment and necessary determination, ⟨p. 114⟩which I remember to have found among us). And those on the other side, Bertius, Thompson, and the Arminians commonly have collected. My own opinion about it I have so largely showed in a Book called My present Thoughts of Perseverance, before-mentioned, that I need not here again deliver it. Though between that and this last opinion, as wise a man as I may be in doubt when he hath done his best for a satisfactory resolution.
332. But yet all this is not enough to prove that any of the justified do totally or finally fall away. The controversie must not be decided by arguments from convenience, but by Scripture assertion; where the difficulty is very great, because no small number of Texts seem to favour both the opinions, the reconciling of which is not the work of every ordinary understanding. Those that are brought for the certain Perseverance of all the justified may be seen in Zanchy's Disputes with Marbachius, (the first hot and high agitation of this controversie as a matter of great moment and necessary determination, ⟨p. 114⟩which I remember to have found among us). And those on the other side, Bertius, Thompson, and the Arminians commonly have collected. My own opinion about it I have so largely shewed in a Book called My present Thoughts of Perseverance, before-mentioned, that I need not here again deliver it. Though between that and this last opinion, as wise a man as I may be in doubt when he hath done his best for a satisfactory resolution.