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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.
Lib. By casting it away, I do not mean, giving over to Love God and obey him, and turning wickedly to the contrary: but I mean that I count it dung in order to my Justification.
P. I perceive by Teaching me, you are but Learning to speak your self. I further ask you, Doth not God Love the Faith, Love, Obedience and Holiness of his servants, notwithstanding all their faults and imperfections? Joh. 16. 27. The Father himself loveth you, because you have Loved me and believed, &c. 2 Cor. 9. 7. God loveth a cheerful giver. Psal. 11. 7. The righteous Lord Loveth righteousness; with many the like passages. Doth he not Love his Image?
Lib. That is, because we are in Christ; and our persons and graces and duties are accepted all in him, being perfumed with his righteousness, and all our sins and imperfections pardoned and covered thereby: And as our Graces are the works of the holy Ghost, and not primarily as ours.