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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.
The first Crimination.
A. 1. My first Charge is, That you hold that God doth from eternity Decree to damn in Hell fire the far greatest part of men, without respect 1to any fore-seen Sin, or cause in them, but merely because •••• pleaseth him to do it: This is your Doctrine of Absolute Reprobation.
A. 1. My first Charge is, That you hold that God doth from eternity Decree to damn in Hell fire the far greatest part of men, without respect 1to any fore-seen Sin, or cause in them, but meerly because •••• pleaseth him to do it: This is your Doctrine of Absolute Reprobation.
- 1See the conclusion of the Canons of the Synod at Dort, where this very Charge is denied with detestation. And can you tell better what men hold than they themselves. Episcop. Justit. Theol. l. 4. Sect. 5. cap. 6. p. 412. Col. 2. 52. Sect. 2. Statuitur, Deum cos secundum •perasua judicare—& •b. rebellionem & contumacy-am corum dolere, irasci, &c. dam•are, &c. cum tamen non modo absolute eos perir• & peccare voluerit, sed & originario tali labe infectos nasci fec•rit, unde omnia ista peccata scaturire ac fluere inevitabiliter necesse erat. Quod quid aliud esse potest, quam histrionica quaedam & scnica actio?