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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.
SECT. XXVII. Of the fewness of the glorified, and the many that perish.
368. Though it be comparatively but a little Flock, and part of this world to whom God will give the heavenly Kingdom, yet the number will in it self be exceeding great. And it's very probable that (this Earth being a very little punctum of the Creation) that taking all God's rational Creatures together, the number of the damned will be found a very small number in comparison of the blessed; even as the Malefactors in the Jails are to the Subjects of the Kingdom. For the worlds above us are incomprehensibly vast and glorious; And the Text telleth us, Heb. 22. 22. That we are come to an innumerable company of Angels: Though the proportions be unknown to us, I speak this again, that mistakes tempt not men to unworthy thoughts of the infinite amiable goodness of God, or of the Christian Faith.
368. Though it be comparatively but a little Flock, and part of this world to whom God will give the heavenly Kingdom, yet the number will in it self be exceeding great. And it's very probable that (this Earth being a very little punctum of the Creation) that taking all God's rational Creatures together, the number of the damned will be found a very small number in comparison of the blessed; even as the Malefactors in the Jailes are to the Subjects of the Kingdom. For the worlds above us are incomprehensibly vast and glorious; And the Text telleth us, Heb. 22. 22. That we are come to an innumerable company of Angels: Though the proportions be unknown to us, I speak this again, that mistakes tempt not men to unworthy thoughts of the infinite amiable goodness of God, or of the Christian Faith.