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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.
The fifth Crimination.
A. They tell men that they must believe a Lye, or an unrevealed thing, that by believing it, it may become true, and they may be saved, and else they shall be damned. For they say that Christ died for none but the Elect: And yet that others also are bound to believe that he died for them: And because they believe not this Lye God will damn them: But if they did believe it, it would be true: As if the Objective Truth were not before the belief of it.
A. They tell men that they must believe a Lye, or an unrevealed thing, that by believing it, it may become true, and they may be saved, and ese they shall be damned. For they say that Christ died for none but the Elect: And yet that others also are bound to believe that he died for them: And because they believe not this Lye God will damn them: But if they did believe it, it would be true: As if the Objective Truth were not before the belief of it.
B. This also is but your quarrel with singular men, and not with the Churches, unless you wrong them. Their common Doctrine is, that no man in his first act of Faith is bound to believe that he is Elect, or that Christ died for him any more than for lost Mankind. But that he must first believe that Christ by his Death hath so far satisfied and merited for Mankind in general, as to procure the universal conditional Gift of Christ, Pardon and Life; And that they must believe that this is procured for, and offered to, themselves as well as other Sinners. And hereupon they are to accept this free Gift, and so it is theirs. What lye