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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.
A. They do reproach the Holiness of Gods people, and his image, and encourage most horrid wickedness, while they make all the s•• that ever was committed by any man after his Regeneration, to be consistent with Holiness and Justification: not only Noah's Drunkenness, Lot's being Drunk and Incestuous two nights together, David's horrid Murder and Adultery, Peter's denying and forswearing his Lord; but (for instance) Solomon they say was a Saint, and justified, when he gave up himself to all manner of pleasure, and denied himself nothing, (and Paul saith, The carnal mind is enmity to God, and if ye live after the flesh ye shall die,) when he clave in love to many Idolatrous women; having seven hundred Wives, and three hundred Concubines, and his Wives turned away his Heart after other gods, and his Heart was not perfect with the Lord—but he went after Ashtoreth, the Goddess of the Sidonians, and after Milcom, the abomination of the Amorites, and built an High Place for Chemoth, the abomination of Moab, and for Molech the abomination of Ammon; and likewise did he for all his strange Wives, which burnt Incense and sacrificed to their gods: his Heart was turned from the Lord that appeared to him twice, 1 King. 11. 1, to 12. All this say the Calvinists you may do, and yet be Saints, and justified and saved. *All this may stand with Gods Image, and true Holiness.
A. They do reproach the Holiness of Gods people, and his •mage, and encourage most horrid wickedness, while they make all the s•• that ever was committed by any man after his Regeneration, to be consistent with Holiness and Justification: not only Noah's Drunkenness, Lot's being Drunk and Incestuous two nights together, David's h•rrid Murder and Adultery, Peter's denying and forswearing his Lord; but (for instance) Solomon they say was a Saint, and justified, when he gave up himself to all manner of pleasure, and denied himself nothing, (and Paul saith, The carnal mind is enmity to God, and if ye live after the flesh ye shall die,) when he clave in love to many Idolatrous women; having seven hundred Wives, and three hundred Co•cubins, and his Wives turned away his Heart after other gods, and his Heart was not perfect with the Lord—but he went after Ashtoreth, the Goddess of the Sidonians, and after Milcom, the abomination of the Amorites, and built an High Place for Chemoth, the abomination of Moab, and for Molech the abomination of Ammon; and likewise did he for all his strange Wives, which burnt Incense and sacrificed to their gods: his Heart was turned from the Lord that appeared to him twice,