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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. But doth not God give special Grace also without such preparation?
B. 1. Our foresaid practical Protestants seem to think not (to men at age.) For they oft say, that it cannot be conceived that a man can value Grace, and come to Christ truly, that hath no preparatory sense of sin and misery. 2. But I find not that the Papists usually deny it, but that God may give special Grace to the unprepared on a sudden. 3. But Papist's and Protestants are agreed that this is not his ordinary way. And where do we differ in all this?
C. But we say not that there is any Merit in all this.
B. Fie on that word Merit! I thought it was but the name that we differed about. 1. And many of themselves dislike the name, and say, It is unapt: And I think so do the Lutherans and Arminians more commonly. 2. And others say, that by Morit they mean nothing but a ⟨p. 40⟩moral aptitude for Reward. And they say, that they can find no one fitter name for that than this, which all Christians without known opposition used for many hundred years after the Apostles. And that the Scripture word [Greek or Hebrew], worthy, is the same in sense. 3. And they usually say, that special Grace is called a Reward to the prepared, (if not unaptly, as many or most say, yet) but in a lower Analogical sense, and not as Heaven is the reward of Holiness: Because, of the latter, there is a flat Promise, and premiant Law or Covenant made by God; but of the former they can say no more than as aforesaid, that God appointeth no Duty and means in vain.