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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. Blessed are the Peace-makers, for they shall be called the Children o• God. We will seek to please all men for their good to edification; an• yet seek to please no man before God, nor in sin, nor place any of ou• happiness in their favour, nor think much to bear their displeasure o• contempt: For if we (so) seek to please men, we are no longer the Servants of Christ. If Gods favour were not enough for us, he were not our God.
C. I am afraid your study of Syncretism or Concord will tempt you to war• and turn half an Arminian, and forsake the Truth.
B. I thank you for your care of me, and I wonder not at your fears• as long as you mistake one another as you do. As all persecution o• Gods Servants is raised by mis-reports, and misapprehending them to be very bad and dangerous persons, and as all sinful Schisms and separations in Churches arise from mens thinking one another to be very bad and unfit for communion; Even so these factions, and Church-dividing Contentions, come from a false conceit that each side is so dangerously erroneous, as that all good men must stir up their zeal, and with all their disputing-skill and contending-fervency must arm, to defend the Truth against them, and to save the Church and the Souls of men from the infection of their Error. Since I saw the nature of these present Controversies, it filleth me with shame and pity to think, what fierce and fiery work• there hath long been, what hatred, slanders, scorns, persecutions; what voluminous Contentions, what Snares laid for young Students; what factious Oppositions to each other among Pastors and People, throughout much of the learnedst part of the Christian World; and all in a dream, for the most part about mere names and words, or things, that none of them at all understood, nor ever will do in this World. O subtle Tempter! O foolish men! even wise and learned men! O lamentable Churches! O miserable World!