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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 sixth Crimination.
A. They disable Ministers rationally to preach the Gospel. For if Christ died for none but the Elect, and no Minister know the Elect, they know not whom to offer and preach Christ to; For the objective Gift must go before the offer: And that which is to be offered to every Sinner is, A Christ that hath already died and satisfied for him; and not one that is to die and satisfy for him yet, if he will believe. Therefore the very offer is as much as to say, [Accept Christ as one that hath satisfied for thee]. And so they make the very preaching of the Gospel, a lye, to most.
A. They disable Ministers rationally to preach the Gospel. For if Christ died for none but the Elect, and no Minister know the Elect, they know not whom to offer and preach Christ to; For the objective Gift must go before the offer: And that which is to be offered to every Sinner is, A Christ that hath already died and satisfied for him; and not one that is to die and satisfie for him yet, if he will believe. Therefore the very offer is as much as to say, [Accept Christ as one that hath satisfied for thee]. And so they make the very preaching of the Gospel, a lye, to most.
B. I will not answer you as some that say, they tell not men that they are Elect, and that Christ died for them; but that if they will believe, then it is a sign that they are Elect, and Christ died for them: And they may offer him to all, that some may accept him. For I say as you do, that it is a Christ that hath already made satisfaction, and thereby is become a sufficient Saviour, who is to be offered to men. And the being of the Gift is before the offer of it in nature. But I say again that you fight against stragglers, in a Cause which the Churches are not concerned in: They say that it is a Christ who died for all as to sufficiency, who is to be offered to men, that he may efficiently save them.