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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.
4. Nor will I call the whole execution of God's Election by Christ, the Covenant in Execution; nor any part of it but that which Scripture so calleth.
5. I grant him that [Greek or Hebrew] is usually taken for a divine disposition and constitution: but that is not merely in God's Decree, but (as Grotius hath at large opened,) (Praef. ad Annot. in Evang.) as it is God's signal revealed determination of the terms of life and death; or as it is a Law and a Covenant on God's part imposed on us, before we consent. And Jer. 33. 20. doth not call God's mere Decree, his Covenant; (but his created course and law of nature.)
5. I grant him that 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 is usually taken for a divine disposition and constitution: but that is not meerly in God's Decree, but (as Grotius hath at large opened,) (Praef. ad Annot. in Evang.) as it is God's signal revealed determination of the terms of life and death; or as it is a Law and a Covenant on God's part imposed on us, before we consent. And Jer. 33. 20. doth not call God's meer Decree, his Covenant; (but his created course and law of nature.)
6. He that will but try the Texts which his Concordance referreth him to, and cannot find a multitude of places where the word [Covenant] is taken for somewhat else than God's Decrees, and their general Execution, even for a Law with its premiant and penal sanction, and for a free donation or promise, which yet hath its proper conditions, as the moralis dispositio recipientium; and that cannot find divers such Covenants made, by God, with Christ and us, that are really distinct, and not to be confounded, must not expect that I here trouble other Readers with such a task as his conviction.