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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.
B. I do not slight them, but confute them. I confess that the cases are not without difficulty, yea not a little. But I am surer that Religion is not to be renounced, than they can be of the truth of their Opinions. And do you think that if one of them had written for the Cause of •• ▪ li•n, Porphyry or Celsus against Christ, that they would not have spoken as plausibly, and made the case seem as difficult, at least to be argumentatively answered as they here do.
B. I do not slight them, but confute them. I confess that the cases are not without difficulty, yea not a little. But I am surer that Religion is not to be renounced, than they can be of the truth of their Opinions. And do you think that if one of them had written for the Cause of •• ▪ li•n, Porphyrie or Celsus against Christ, that they would not have spoken as plausibly, and made the case seem as difficult, at least to be argumentatively answered as they here do.
A. Now let us here your way or terms before mentioned, what they are?
B. II. I suppose every sober man will allow me, 1. To distinguish Names and Words from Things, and *nominal Controversies from real; and to that end to open the ambiguity of words as I go along: And to ••ew when it is an arbitrary Logical notion, or an en• ration only that men contend about, instead of a reality. 2. I may be allowed, when confusion lapeth up many doubtful questions in one, to distinguish them that each may have its proper answer. 3. I may be allowed to ast by, as unfit for contention, all those unrevealed and unsearchable Points, which none of the Contenders know at all, nor ever will do in this World. 4. And I will take leave to lay by the rash words of particular Writers, as not to be imputed to any others, nor to the main Cause; or as that which I am not obliged to defend, reconcile, nor at all to meddle with. 5. And when all this is done, you shall see what Ato the remaining differences will prove.