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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.
B. Certain Experience telleth us, that most usually God giveth extraordinary differing means where his Grace shall work different effects. Christ himself who was to bestow extraordinary Grace after his Incarnation, was himself to be an extraordinary means: He must work Miracles, raise the Dead, rise from the Dead, &c. as the Means. The Apostles that were to do extraordinary things, in calling the unbelieving world to Christ, were to do it by miracles and extraordinary▪ means. The 3000 Act. 2. must have the Apostles miraculous gift of tongues to be the means of their Conversion. Cornelius must have both an Angel and Peter. Paul must be strucken down and blind, and hear Christ speak from Heaven, and after have Ananias's Ministry. The Eunuch must have Philip. The Jailer, Act. 16. must have an Earthquake; and so of others. And to this day we see how little God doth where there is no Ministry or Means. And how much the success of able, holy, skilful Ministers, doth differ from that of wicked, or Ignorant sots: And how usually in all the world, the success goeth according to the means; and that the instances of contrary are unusual rarities: Therefore separate not what the wisdom of God hath conjoined.
B. Certain Experience telleth us, that most usually God giveth extraordinary differing means where his Grace shall work different effects. Christ himself who was to bestow extraordinary Grace after his Incarnation, was himself to be an extraordinary means: He must work Miracles, raise the Dead, rise from the Dead, &c. as the Means. The Apostles that were to do extraordinary things, in calling the unbelieving world to Christ, were to do it by miracles and extraordinary▪ means. The 3000 Act. 2. must have the Apostles miraculous gift of tongues to be the means of their Conversion. Cornelius must have both an Angel and Peter. Paul must be strucken down and blind, and hear Christ speak from Heaven, and after have Ananias's Ministry. The Eunuch must have Philip. The Jaylor, Act. 16. must have an Earthquake; and so of others. And to this day we see how little God doth where there is no Ministry or Means. And how much the success of able, holy, skilful Ministers, doth differ from that of wicked, or Ignorant sots: And how usually in all the world, the success goeth according to the means; and that the instances of contrary are unusual rarities: Therefore separate not what the wisdom of God hath conjoyned.