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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. Would it do the Thief that is hanged any good, to have the other unpardoned? Would it ease their pains in Hell, to have the company of all those that be in Heaven? If it be no wrong to them to suffer themselves, nothing but envy can call it a wrong to them, to have others escape. Had they love to others as themselves, it would be some comfort to them to think that others are in Joy and Glory?
A. At least this is a real difference between the Parties.
B. 1. The School-men and many learned Jesuits (as I have proved, Lib. 1.) make it not a difference. And will you called Arminians or Lutherans go further from your Protestant Brethren, than the learned Papists and Jesuits themselves go? Are you not ashamed of this? 2. The Papists can bear with one another in these Points, and live in communion in one Church, (though the Jansenists Case hath had more than ordinary heats and stirs;) And yet the Dominicans go higher and further in the Controversy of Predetermination from the Jesuits, than the Synodists do: And are you more fierce or unpeaceable than they? 3. But remember here once for all, that you were not able to name any one benefit which Christ's death procured for all, other than the Synodists hold as well as you: But only you charge them as asserting more to the Elect. They give more (you say) to some, but not less to all. 4. And all this lieth in the point of Intention and Divine Decrees, which was sufficiently reconciled before. But you have by all this enticed me to mingle various Controversies, and to anticipate that of Grace and Free-will, which is to be handled by it self in due place. ⟨p. 57⟩But I have a word more to give you, by way of caution, if you will think on it.
B. 1. The School-men and many learned Jesuites (as I have proved, Lib. 1.) make it not a difference. And will you called Arminians or Lutherans go further from your Protestant Brethren, than the learned Papists and Jesuites themselves go? Are you not ashamed of this? 2. The Papists can bear with one another in these Points, and live in communion in one Church, (though the Jansenists Case hath had more than ordinary heats and stirs;) And yet the Dominicans go higher and further in the Controversie of Predetermination from the Jesuites, than the Synodists do: And are you more fierce or unpeaceable than they? 3. But remember here once for all, that you were not able to name any one benefit which Christ's death procured for all, other than the Synodists hold as well as you: But only you charge them as asserting more to the Elect. They give more (you say) to some, but not less to all. 4. And all this lieth in the point of Intention and Divine Decrees, which was sufficiently reconciled before. But you have by all this entised me to mingle various Controversies, and to anticipate that of Grace and Free-will, which is to be handled by it self in due place.