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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.
C. Yes: He that had but one Talent should have improved it.
B. Is not a man that doth this as far as common Grace will go, more disposed and prepared to receive special Grace, than one that hath long abused it, and derideth God and godliness?
C. Yes, no doubt some such are not far from the Kingdom of God.
B. Have not *Mr. Jo. Rogers, Mr. Tho Hooker, Mr. Rob. Bolton, †and abundance of other Protestants written much of Preparation to Conversion? And is it not our common Doctrine?
- *Doct. of Faith.
- †Instruct. for Comfort. Consc. Read Vasq. i 1. Tho. qu. 23. a. 4. disp. 9. throughout, proving that Predestination to the first Grace is not upon foreseen Merit, no nor upon any fore-seen Cause sine qua non, no nor Condition sine qua non, &c. and against Cassianus, and the Massilienses, and the Greek Fathers, that the initium primae gratiae & praedestinationis is not from our free will: Yea, c. 10. opposing Scotus, Grabril, Cajet. Richard. Durand. Pantus. &c. as coming too near the Massilienses: Yea, and all that hold that facienti quod in se est ex viribus naturae, Deus non denegat gratiam.