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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. A few particular men on each side that run into extremes, when once engaged run on further, and make a great noise, while sober men in silence pity them; And so with some the greatest and the loudest are taken to speak the common sense. And thus Spanhemius, Maccovi•s, and a few much inferior to them in learning here in England, have kept up the Contention. And several of the Jesuits, Lutherans and Arminians, have run out into the contrary extreme; and so the difference hath been made and maintained. So that with most Christians, the controversy is not whether Christ be the Saviour of the World, or died for all men; but how far, and in what sense he did so, that this Article may agree with the rest of our Theology.
B. A few particular men on each side that run into extreams, when once engaged run on further, and make a great noise, while sober men in silence pity them; And so with some the greatest and the lowdest are taken to speak the common sense. And thus Spanhemius, Maccovi•s, and a few much inferior to them in learning here in England, have kept up the Contention. And several of the Jesuites, Lutherans and Arminians, have run out into the contrary extream; and so the difference hath been made and maintained. So that with most Christians, the controversie is not whether Christ be the Saviour of the World, or died for all men; but how far, and in what sense he did so, that this Article may agree with the rest of our Theology.
A. The sense is all: If we agree not in sense, we agree in nothing.
B. The few extreme Contenders agree not in sense: But the generality of Christians, much more may I say Protestants, do, in all that is necessary to our common concord. If really you differ, tell me your self, What do you hold that Christ purchased for all men, more than the Synodists do? Name me one benefit if you can.