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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. 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?
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 compleat 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?
C. Yes: No doubt of it.
B. And are the generality of Professors certain of it, when not only the Greeks and Romans, but also all the Lutherans and Arminians, and most Anabaptists utterly deny it? I grant that men may be confident in the opinion which they are educated or fallen into. But are the unlearned certain, when most of the Learned are confident of the contrary? Following our Leaders eagerly is not certainty.