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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.
And to say that God could have made man better, and given him more Grace, is but as to say that he could have made Toads to be Larks, and Beasts to be Men, and Men to be Angels: And what if he did not? 5. And I again repeat what I have oft said, that all this Earth is but a point next inconsiderable in the vast Universe; And immeasurable spaces of those superior parts of the Creation are like to have proportionable Inhabitants for glory and number: And we know that we are come to an innumerable Company of Angels, Heb. 12. 23, 24. And for ought we know God may have millions of blessed Spirits, for one miserable wicked Soul. Therefore we must not talk against that which we do not understand. ⟨p. 145⟩And if the Saints shall judge (wicked) Angels, and the World, (judging being usually put for ruling and punishing) we know not what hand we shall have our selves in the execution of Gods Wrath upon them, and how far they shall be as Slaves to Saints.
C. You have said that (I confess) that tendeth to reconcile us all to Gods Providence; But whether it will reconcile our own differences I doubt. How is that Grace sufficient to all men for Salvation, which never telleth most of a Christ, or of Salvation at all?
Jansen. de Grat. Christi, l. 2. c. 27. Non quaevis Gratia ad quosvis effectus inferendos sufficit: ut quidam imaginati sunt sed potestates operationum difficultati attemperand• sunt.