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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 Second Days Conference OF PREDESTINATION. Between C. (a Calvinist) and B. (the Conciliator.)
C. I hear of your undertaking to manifest the smallness of our Differences in the long controverted Articles of Predestination, Redemption, Grace and Free-will. *But these Reconcilers do but hal• between two Opinions; and while they will be of neither side, they are like• and loved by neither.
- *Le Blank de dist. Grat. Thes. 80, 81. Tanta varie•as sententiarum & opinionum circa naturam & essentiam gratiae efficacis & rationem ac modum, quo in animis hominum operatur quae a tot jam seculis scholas Christianas exercet, arguit rem esse perplexam, obs•uram & quae undique multis difficultatibus scatet: Nec spes est fore contentionum •inem, nisi curiositati modus aliquis statuatur, & omittantur questions arduae & nonnecessariae. Ac profecto long consultius foret, & paci ac pietati Christianae conduc•b•lius in totum ab ejusmodi quaestionibus abstinere, quam sine fine rixari de rebus quae difficultate sua ing• nium humanum obruunt, & in quibus vix quisquam sibi potest satisfacere. Praesertim quaestion•s illae apud plebem Christianum in homiliis & concionibus non tantum nullo cum fructu, sed maximo saepe cum damno proponuntur, dumb simplicium animis injicuntur varii srupuli, quos disputaionum ars & eloquentia satis postea discuter non potest. And he mentioneth the things which he would have us take up with, which we are agreed in, viz. Quicquid boni obis nest, & a nobis fit, Diviae graiae deberi: Deun esse qui omne bonum in nobis operatur sine Christo & spiritus illius axiio in s quae aeternam salutem promovent nbil nos quiquam posse, &c. Dum amen si per gratam suam in nobis operari, t libertati nostrae nil decedat mp o qi male agunt nullm occasionem habere a Deo quaeendi, &c.