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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.
So that the plain truth is, that mans understanding can reach no further than to conceive, 1. That our souls are the termini of Gods Volition and Active power. 2. That though God act not on us by corporeal contact, yet we must call our selves Patients, and think of the Attingency of his Active essence with its effects, by some Analogy of Corporeal attingency, contact, and impressed moving force. But truly to know how God toucheth, moveth, operateth on any Creature and by what Impressions, or what there is indeed between Gods essence and mans Act, we know not at all. And if Christ had never said, Joh. 3. [so is every one that is born of the spirit] our own experience might have told us that we know it not.
So that the plain truth is, that mans understanding can reach no further than to conceive, 1. That our souls are the termini of Gods Volition and Active power. 2. That though God act not on us by corporeal contact, yet we must call our selves Patients, and think of the Attingency of his Active essence with its effects, by some Analogie of Corporeal attingency, contact, and impressed moving force. But truly to know how God toucheth, moveth, operateth on any Creature and by what Impressions, or what there is indeed between Gods essence and mans Act, we know not at all. And if Christ had never said, Joh. 3. [so is every one that is born of the spirit] our own experience might have told us that we know it not.
Boldly then tell our Church-distracting wranglers, that contend about the nature, sufficiency, efficacy, resistibility of this Act of Grace, that they know not the very subject of their disputes. And shall we still fire the Church by striving about words that profit not but subvert the hearers, and tend to the increase of ungodliness?