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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. I. Of our Knowledge of God, as here attainable.
Though it be about the Knowledge, Will and Decrees of God, that our Controversies are agitated, yet because the consequent Verities are scarce ever well understood, without the understanding of the Antecedents, out of which the Consequents arise, and without the just order, place and respect which the later have unto the former, and unless things be understood in their true Method; I will therefore expose my self to the obloquy of those, who will call it Over-doing, so far as to premise somewhat of the Deity it self; But not what is necessary to the full explication of the Divine Attributes (as we are capable) as must be in a Method of Theology (which I have attempted elsewhere); but only so much as lieth under our Controverted Subject: And when I have done that, I shall leave the rest.
THough it be about the Knowledge, Will and Decrees of God, that our Controversies are agitated, yet because the consequent Verities are scarce ever well understood, without the understanding of the Antecedents, out of which the Consequents arise, and without the just order, place and respect which the later have unto the former, and unless things be understood in their true Method; I will therefore expose my self to the obloquy of those, who will call it Over-doing, so far as to premise somewhat of the Deity it self; But not what is necessary to the full explication of the Divine Attributes (as we are capable) as must be in a Method of Theologie (which I have attempted elsewhere); but only so much as lyeth under our Controverted Subject: And when I have done that, I shall leave the rest.