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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.
Jer. 32. 36, 37, &c. [I will gather them out of all Countries whither I have driven them—and will bring them again into this place, and I will cause them to dwell safely; and they shall be my people, and I will be their God, and I will give them one heart, and one way, that they may fear me for ever.] So Ezek. 11. 16, 17, 18, 19, 20. And Ezek. 36. 25, 26, 27, 28, 29. In all which, there is a promissory Prophecy, how great a deliverance God would give the Nation of the Jews, both for body and soul; And their temporal return and liberty is promised and prophesied in the same manner as a new heart is. But here is not a syllable to prove that this is the first special Grace; any more than perseverance is, which in the same manner is promised in Jer. 32. 40. [I will put my fear in their hearts, and they shall not depart.] To say nothing how far in the first sense this was National to the Jews, nor how the performance did expound it, (For doubtless it is performed,) the Text it self premiseth [I will be their God, and they shall be my people] with other mercies. And no doubt but Faith and Repentance go before this Covenant-Relation to God; and therefore before the following gift of the Spirit, ver. 9. and Ch. 11. 19. And Ezek. 18. 31. the same is commanded, [Cast away from you all your transgressions whereby ye have transgressed, and make you a new heart, and a new spirit—.]
Jer. 32. 36, 37, &c. [I will gather them out of all Countreys whither I have driven them—and will bring them again into this place, and I will cause them to dwell safely; and they shall be my people, and I will be their God, and I will give them one heart, and one way, that they may fear me for ever.] So Ezek. 11. 16, 17, 18, 19, 20. And Ezek. 36. 25, 26, 27, 28, 29. In all which, there is a promissory Prophecy, how great a deliverance God would give the Nation of the Jews, both for body and soul; And their temporal return and liberty is promised and prophesied in the same manner as a new heart is. But here is not a syllable to prove that this is the first special Grace; any more than perseverance is, which in the same manner is promised in