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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 sixth Crimination.
A. They contradict abundance of express Scripture, which asserteth that the godly may fall finally from true Grace.
B. And they think that you rather contradict abundance of Texts that speak expressly for the contrary: It is none of my work now to defend either them or you: I have long ago written a peculiar Tractate of my own Opinion herein: Who is in the right I am not now determining: But that you over-magnify the difference on both sides usually, I shall show you in the end. No doubt but the Scripture is of it self sufficient to decide all Controversies, as a Rule of sound Doctrine, so far as God would have them clearly decided. But yet he that denieth that some things in Scripture are hard to be understood, will contradict not only Peter's words, but his own and all mens experience. For as it pleased God to make up the World of variety of Creatures, so also to make up the Scripture of Truths of various degrees of necessity and evidence. And in this Point there are so many Texts, that both Sides think do favour their Opinions, that we have not the same certainty as in many other Points, and therefore not the same consent and concord among the learnedest Divines, and the godliest Christians: And in my Observations most on each side are more moved to their Opinion in this, from the congruity that they think it hath with other Verities or the Analogy of Faith, than from the proper plain sense of the Texts which they themselves allege. So that though no doubt the Truth is to be found in the Scriptures, yet not with such ease and certainty as will allow us to make the decision of this Point, any part of the terms of our necessary Concord.