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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.
§. VII. Of Jansenius his way of reconciling Grace and Free-will.
§. 1. But after all these cometh Jansenius, and justly blaming Philosophy as the great occasion of our heresies and errors, which misled the Schoolmen, Jesuits and others, he goeth to Augustine alone (as Lombard thought he had well done before him;) and disgraceth his cause by saying that Augustine first taught it to the Church, (as if Grace had been unknown by the former ages:) And because many will not be at the labour to know his mind by reading so big a volume, I shall briefly select what concerneth the matter in hand, and animadvert upon it.
§. 1. BUt after all these cometh Jansenius, and justly blaming Philosophy as the great occasion of our heresies and errours, which misled the Schoolmen, Jesuites and others, he goeth to Augustine alone (as Lombard thought he had well done before him;) and disgraceth his cause by saying that Augustine first taught it to the Church, (as if Grace had been unknown by the former ages:) And because many will not be at the labour to know his mind by reading so big a volume, I shall briefly select what concerneth the matter in hand, and animadvert upon it.
1. His first Tome describeth the Heresy of Pelagius, wherein he proveth that Pelagius held all this that followeth concerning grace:
1. His first Tome describeth the Heresie of Pelagius, wherein he proveth that Pelagius held all this that followeth concerning grace: