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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 tenth Crimination.
A. They teach the World abominable Ingratitude, and reproachfully deny a great deal of the Grace and Mercy of Christ, and the fruits of his Death and Sacrifice. For they teach men, that all the Mercies given to any besides the Elect, were no fruits of the death of Christ for them, nor were at all by him purchased for them; yea, that they are no Mercies to them at all, because God eternally decreed that they should turn them into sin, and suffer the more for the abuse of them for ever. And so all the rest of the World may say that they are not at all beholden to the death of Christ, for their Lives, Liberties, offers of Grace, and all other Mercies.
B. Let them answer you that are concerned in the Charge. The Reformed Churches hold, That Mercy is to be judged of by its nature and tendency in it self, and not by mans abuse; and that God decreed no mans abuse of it; and that all the Mercies given to Mankind, since the forfeiture of all by Adam's sin, are procured and given by Christ as the Intercessor and Redeemer of the World; and that wicked men justly are deprived of life for rejecting it, and suffer Hell for abusing Mercy and refusing Heaven.