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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.
1. The first no man will say that taketh an unbeliever for a Man. 2. The second no man will say that will not by Hobbes his physical necessitation, turn Religion into a name or nothing, or the natural motion of an Engine called Man. 3. And the third (which is the truth) must be named as it is: In Controversies which exercise so great animosities and ••••al zeal as this doth in the Churches, it is an injurious thing to use sed••ing improper names, when the more plain and intelligible are at hand. Hereafter speak plainly in your contendings, and instead of [Cannot] say, An unconverted man will not believe, and his will is viciously undisposed to it, yea ill-disposed against it. Hold to this that we may understand each other; or confess that you quarrel about a word.
1. The first no man will say that taketh an unbeliever for a Man. 2. The second no man will say that will not by Hobbes his physical necessitation, turn Religion into a name or nothing, or the natural mot•on of an Engine called Man. 3. And the third (which is the truth) must be named as it is: In Controversies which exercise so great animosities and ••••al zeal as this doth in the Churches, it is an injurious thing to use sed••ing improper names, when the more plain and intelligible are at hand. Hereafter speak plainly in your contendings, and instead of [Cannot] say, An unconverted man will not believe, and his will is viciously undisposed to it, yea ill-disposed against it. Hold to this that we may understand each other; or confess that you quarrel about a word.
§. 16. Obj. The Scripture useth the word [Cannot:] Can a Black•ore change his skin, &c.