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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.
§. 36. VIII. And if Redemption be nothing but Physical efficiency by Christ, (who as a creating Mediator first giveth all creatures what they have, and next faileth them and leaveth them in darkness, as the Sun setteth, and then Rising again revolveth all things into his original pure spirituality, like the revolution of day and night, Summer and Winter,) it is sure another thing than the Scripture describeth it, which maketh it a noble part of that Sapiential frame of Moral Government which some despise.
§. 37. IX. But let it be noted, that we hold, that as the Almighty Father is the glorious Creator, Motor and Life of Nature, and the Eternal Wisdom, Word and Son, the Glorious Ordinator, Rector and Redeemer, so the Eternal Love, and the Holy Ghost is the final Perfecter of believers, even of Gods Elect; and that this Sanctification and proficiency, is by more than Moral Sapiential Regiment, even by the Real shedding abroad Gods Love upon the soul, or by a Quickening, Illuminating, felicitating Communication of Divine Life, and Light, and Love, which yet maketh not the Sapiential Regiment vain.
§. 37. IX. But let it be noted, that we hold, that as the Almighty Father is the glorious Creator, Motor and Life of Nature, and the Eternal Wisdom, Word and Son, the Glorious Ordinator, Rector and Redeemer, so the Eternal Love, and the Holy Ghost is the final Perfecter of believers, even of Gods Elect; and that this Sanctification and proficiency, is by more than Moral Sapiential Regiment, even by the Real shedding abroad Gods Love upon the soul, or by a Quickning, Illuminating, felicitating Communication of Divine Life, and Light, and Love, which yet maketh not the Sapiential Regiment vain.
§. 38. And as to Free-will I further say, that we are far from holding that it is a state of man in which he is Above God, or Independent and as a God to himself, or that God is any way a defective or idle (as they call it) Spectator of mans sins, or free acts: But that this rank and state of free agents is Gods own wisely-chosen work in which he is delighted. And that he doth truly attain his ends in all.