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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. 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:
1. The Remission of sins, containing 1. Conversion to God, 2. The abstersion of the blot and filth, 3. Reconciliation, or remission of Gods offence, 4. And of the eternal punishment. Jansenius Aug. To. 1. l. 5. c. 22. p. 126, 127. 2. That Pelagius owned the Infusion of habitual grace. And that God in Baptism did blot out all sins, purge, cleanse and expiate them, save and renew the soul, restore nature, deliver from the body of this death, and from the contracted custom of sinning: He held that Grace doth Regenerate, Illuminate, cause Faith, Justify, (even Infants,) Sanctify, make us new Creatures, incorporate us into Christ as his members, give us the anointing of the Holy Ghost, not only restoring us to the state that we were in in Adam, but to a better, and to be adopted sons of God, and saved. cap. 24. And 25. as to the Relative effects, that Grace Reconcileth man to God, maketh him an adopted Son of God, and the Temple of the Holy Ghost, an Heir of God, and co-heir with Christ: So that they acknowledge not only Habitual Infused Grace, but more; even in Baptism: As also the Assisting motions of the spirit to good acts, making them possible. Also that after Pope Zozymus had condemned the Pelagians, they went further, and that their design was but to lay mens salvation or damnation on free-will. lib. 6. c. 7. &c.