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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; for we are little disagreed about it.
B. If then this Order be plain, and sure, and needful, and that which we are all agreed in; and your Order of Intention be either none, or uncertain, and past the reach of mortal man, judge you what Order we should treat of, and who are the wise and peaceable men?
C. Yet the School-men before us have treated of that Order.
B. Davenant tells you, That Scotus was the first Artificer of that Invention. Whether that be so or not, it's sure that you use to declaim against the School-mens profane curiosity and audacity: And where (except about the Trinity) hath it been greater than in this? And you know that few of them that give you the ordinem signorum, as they call it, do agree in the same Order; (As I have showed in some instances, lib. 2.) And if you will condemn your selves in condemning them, why should we think that you have hit of the right Order any more than they? We have seen Beza's, Gilbie's, Perkin's, and we have seen Twice's (much better,) and we have seen the Lutherans and the Arminians, and we see little agreement. Do you think that the Synod of Dort, that leaveth out such things, was not as wise as any of you all? Or was not Davenant as judicious as any of you in these Controversies, who openly and largely professeth, that he is not one of those Privy-Counsellors of God, who know in what Order things lie in his Mind, and can assign each Act its proper place; but he thinketh this Order of mental Intention in God to be utterly unsearchable, and the Order of Execution only fit for us to treat of. See his Dissert. de Praedest.