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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. What he can do is little to our case, but what he will do. If you once take that course, to teach men to look for assurance of their Salvation or Sanctification, without certain finding that Sanctification in themselves, you will make sad work in the Church of God. For nothing is more certain, than that without Regeneration, Conversion and Holiness, none shall see God. And that if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, which must be known by his fruits, he is none of his, Joh. 3. 3. 5. Math. 18. 3. Heb. 12. 14. Rom. 8. 9, 13. Gal. 5. 21. And that it is he ⟨p. 210⟩that repenteth and believeth that shall be saved. And to be sure that a man is sanctified, and not to be sure that he hath the Graces of Sanctification, is a contradiction; to be sure and not sure of the same thing. And to say you are sure of Heaven without Holiness, is to say that you are sure that Gods Word is false.
C. But the witness of the Spirit certifieth us of all.
B. True: And what is that? As your Reason witnesseth or evidenceth that you are a man, and your Life witnesseth that you are an Animal, so the Spirit witnesseth that you are one of Christs; that is, the sanctifying, illuminating, quickening work of the Spirit: For the Having of the Spirit is your witness: And to have the Spirit is to have Holiness, which is his work; which also the Spirit, to complete his witness, helpeth us both to Act, increase, discern, and take comfort in. Q. 5. And I next then ask you, whether he that will have certainty of Salvation, must not also have (beyond a strong opinion) a certainty that this Doctrine of certain perseverance is true?