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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.
§. 3. But I cannot deny, that though my temptations before were very great, to doubt whether the Doctrine of Universally-necessary Predetermination, as delivered by Bradwardine, the Dominicans, Dr. Twice, Rutherford and Hobbes, were indeed to be rejected, the Reading of Mr. Sterry increased my temptation; not by any new strength of argument which he hath brought, but by the power of his pious florid Oratory, by which, while he entitleth God to the necessitating causation of all sin, and misery, he seemeth to put so honourable and lovely a clothing on them, from their relative order to God, to the Universe, and to their End, as that I felt my hard thoughts of both to abate, and I was tempted to think of them as part of the amiable consequents of the Divine Love, and of the Harmonious order caused by the manifold wisdom of God.
§. 3. But I cannot deny, that though my temptations before were very great, to doubt whether the Doctrine of Universally-necessary Predetermination, as delivered by Bradwardine, the Dominicans, Dr. Twisse, Rutherford and Hobbes, were indeed to be rejected, the Reading of Mr. Sterry increased my temptation; not by any new strength of argument which he hath brought, but by the power of his pious florid Oratory, by which, while he entitleth God to the necessitating causation of all sin, and misery, he seemeth to put so honourable and lovely a cloathing on them, from their relative order to God, to the Universe, and to their End, as that I felt my hard thoughts of both to abate, and I was tempted to think of them as part of the amiable consequents of the Divine Love, and of the Harm•nious order caused by the manifold wisdom of God.
§. 4. And by this I see, of how great importance it is in the world, not only what Doctrine is taught, and with what proof, but who speaketh it, and in what manner. For as I found the same things reverenced in Dr. Twice and Rutherford, which were not so in Alvarez, or Jansenius, or Thom. White; so I found the same Doctrine of Predetermining Necessitation almost commonly brought into greater dislike by Hobbes and Benedictus Spinosa's owning it, and applying it to its too obvious uses, than all