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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 seventh Crimination.
C. They make Christ to do no more for Peter than for Judas; for those in Heaven than for those in Hell, while they say that he died equally for all.
B. *Equality here is meant either of his Intention, or of the benefits given: Those benefits are of several sorts. 1. No doubt but they err, who feign God equally to decree, and Christ to intend, the eventual absolute Salvation of all. 2. And they err that say, that he bestoweth equal benefits on all, even in this life: yea, antecedently to mans Will. But the New Covenant or conditional Promise, doth equally, as to the tenor of it, give Pardon and Right to Life, to all. But who is it that holdeth this equality of Intention or Benefit? Not the greater part of the School-men, or other Papists, no not the learnedst Jesuits. Not the Lutheran Churches; But some few Arminians that run into one extreme, as you do into the other. Nay, how can they hold an equality of Intention, when they confess, that upon foreknowledge ⟨p. 71⟩of their Unbelief, the condemnation of many was eternally decreed?
B. *Equality here is meant either of his Intention, or of the benefits given: Those benefits are of several sorts. 1. No doubt but they err, who feign God equally to decree, and Christ to intend, the eventual absolute Salvation of all. 2. And they err that say, that he bestoweth equal benefits on all, even in this life: yea, antecedently to mans Will. But the New Covenant or conditional Promise, doth equally, as to the tenor of it, give Pardon and Right to Life, to all. But who is it that holdeth this equality of Intention or Benefit? Not the greater part of the School-men, or other Papists, no not the learnedst Jesuites. Not the Lutheran Churches; But some few Arminians that run into one extream, as you do into the other. Nay, how can they hold an equality of Intention, when they confess, that upon foreknowledge