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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 second Crimination.
A. Their Doctrine tendeth to the indulgence of all sin: *For if a man cannot fall away however he live, he may give up himself to lewd carnality, and say, I cannot fall away.
- *One would think that the Doctrine asserting the loss of Justification by mortal sin were stricter than the Calvinists: But judge by the Jesuits Doctrine, who teach that a man in mortal sin or unconverted may de congr•o merit Justification, Ruiz de praedest. exad. d. 19. •ect. 4. p. 242. Ad meritum congrui non requiritur personam esse simpliciter Deo gratam; quin poti•s propter peccatum mortale fit inimica Dei; nihil• minus actus fidei & alii qui ex side procedunt secundum se, grati sunt, quantum sufficit, ut justificationem de congruo mereantur opera namque fraternae charitatis, Heb. 13. & miserccordiae sunt ut sacrificia, quibus Deum per mortale peccatum amissum promeremur reconciliatum accipere: & 1 Joh. 1. si confiteamur, &c. So that Gods Justice is bound to be reconciled to, and Justify a wicked enemy, for an Alms or for Confession: Is not this an easy cure of enmity? But the promise is made only c•teris patibus, to true Believers, already just, but needing a particular remission.One would think that the Doctrine asserting the loss of Justification by mortal sin were stricter than the Calvinists: But judge by the Jesuites Doctrine, who teach that a man in mortal sin or unconverted may de congr•o merit Justification, Ruiz de praedest. exad. d. 19. ect. 4. p. 242. Ad meritum congrui non requiritur personam esse simpliciter Deo gratam; quin potis propter peccatum mortale fit inimica Dei; nihil minus actus fidei & alii qui ex side procedunt secundum se, grati sunt, quantum sufficit, ut justificationem de congruo mereantur opera namque fraternae charitatis,