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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.
A. I except against sect. 8. where they say that [Fuit hoc Dei patris liberrimum consilium, & gratiosissima voluntas atque intentio, ut mortis pretiosissimae filii sui vivifica & salvifica efficacia sese exereret in omnibus electis, ad eos solos fide justificante donandos & per eam ad salutem infallibiliter perducendos: hoc est, voluit Deus, ut Christus per sanguinem crucis, quo novum foedus confirmavit, ex omni populo, gent, tribu & lingua, eos omnes & solos qui ab aeterno ad salutem electi & a patre ipsi dati sunt, efficaciter redimeret, fide donaret, ab omnibus peccatis sanguine suo mundaret, ad finem usque fideliter custodiret, tandem absque omni labe & macula gloriosos coram see sisteret.]
A. I except against sect. 8. where they say that [Fuit hoc Dei patris liberrimum consilium, & gratiosissima voluntas atque intentio, ut mortis pretiosissimae filii sui vivifica & salvifica efficacia sese exereret in omnibus electis, ad eos solos fide justificante donandos & per eam ad salutem infallibiliter perducendos: hoc est, voluit Deus, ut Christus per sanguinem crucis, quo novum foedus confirmavit, ex omni populo, gente, tribu & lingua, eos omnes & solos qui ab aeterno ad salutem electi & a patre ipsi dati sunt, efficaciter redimeret, fide donaret, ab omnibus peccatis sanguine suo mundaret, ad finem usque fideliter custodiret, tandem absque omni labe & macula gloriosos coram se sisteret.]
B. Very good: This is all in the Canons that you can except against. And, 1. You see that this is only about Gods Intention or Decree: And so you differ not at all by your own confession, in the Article of Redemption, as distinct from that of the Decrees. 2. Is it the inclusion of the Elect in this Intention that you except against? So will no sober Jesuit. Do you think that Christ was resolved certainly to justify and glorify no man at all? The Semipelagians will not say so. You say not so your selves. Only some of you say, it is but upon fore-sight of Faith, and by the consequent will, of which I have said enough before. But do you think that Christ when he was on the Cross had no full purpose to save those infallibly *