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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.
C. The great hope that I have that it will never be.
B. What are the Reasons of those your hopes?
C. 1. Because I know that God is Good and merciful in himself. 2. And he dealeth with man upon terms of Grace. 3. And he hath given me experience of his mercy to my self. 4. And I have his general promises that He will not fail me nor forsake me: which though they assure me not that I shall not so fall, yet they assure me that •e will not so far forsake me, without some heinous neglect of his Grace. 5. And I feel in my self a present detestation of such heinous sins, and a fixed Judgment and Resolution against them: And though I have not power of my self to avoid mutation, and back-sliding, yet I have reason to trust him for the keeping of this Grace, who freely gave it me. And the truth is, though man be mutable, he is not apt to fear the change of his own mind, when he is conscious that it is resolved on sound and unquestionable reason. 6. And it is not nothing, that I have been kept from all such sin till now. 7. And that it is a rare thing for any faithful person, so to fall: And why should I fear that which not one of a multitude ever falleth into.