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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.
What Augustine confesseth you may see a little in Alvar. ib. p. 482, 483. but more in himself often.
What Suarez, Hurtado, Mendoz. and other the most subtle philosophical Divines confess commonly of the incomprehensibility of these things, and the darkness and uncertainty of our conceptions, I have elsewhere partly cited; and any that readeth them may find.
What Suarez, Hurtado, Mendoz. and other the most subtil philosophical Divines confess commonly of the incomprehensibility of these things, and the darkness and uncertainty of our conceptions, I have elsewhere partly cited; and any that readeth them may find.
Now all this being so notorious, and their ignorance commonly confessed, may I not confidently infer, 1. That then (seeing all must be reconciled by Believing) we must have nothing obtruded on us herein, which is not to be proved by the Word of God. What the Word saith of Predetermination, of the manner of Gods operation on second causes, and influx on souls, and of the nature of his first effect or Vis Impressa, &c. we will receive: But yet men must not snatch up a metaphorical expression in one or a few Texts, and urge that against the frequent and plain expressions of the Scripture; of the spirits. Operation on souls, Christ himself saith (which is more than all forecited) [The wind bloweth where it listeth, and ye hear the sound thereof, but ye know not whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the spirit.] But as for the operations of God by the word preached and other means, and the Holy Ghosts operation by and with those means, and the Holy Ghosts indwel••ng and operating after in Believers, these are frequently asserted ⟨p. 30⟩