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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.
§. 9. But the whole state of the Man, Habitual, Relative and Practical set together, is called in Scripture, a New Creature, and the New Man, tropically, but not unfitly: Partly because we are really new, though not by another Humanity or Species of Natural Essence, yet by many Accidents: And partly, because those Accidents are so great and make so great a change of our state, as that they emulate a natural Essence; and we use to say in common things, that when an unlearned man is made learned, and a poor man a Prince, and a dying man healthful, he is another man.
§. 10. Though God be one and the same, and Christ the same, and the Law and Word and many Antecedent means the same to many on whom they have different effects, This difference may be caused many ways. 1As 1. By the diversity of other inferior or concomitant second causes: 2. By the diverse Disposition of the Receivers (a common cause of varieties in the World:) 3. By the diversity of Impediments and temptations: And many other ways.
§. 10. Though God be one and the same, and Christ the same, and the Law and Word and many Antecedent means the same to many on whom they have different effects, This difference may be caused many wayes. 1As 1. By the diversity of other inferiour or concomitant second causes: 2. By the diverse Disposition of the Receivers (a common cause of varieties in the World:) 3. By the diversity of Impediments and temptations: And many other wayes.
- 1The Causes of difference.