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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. You would make me ridiculous. I mean that it is for Christs Merits or Righteousness which he did himself, and not for any thing in us or done by us, that we are rewarded.
P. Say you so? Doth diligent seeking him, Heb. 11. 6. and praying and giving alms in secret, Matth. 6. 1, 2, 3, 4. and suffering for Christ, Matth. 5. 11, 12. and feeding, visiting, &c. Christ in his members, Matth. 25. &c. mean only that which Christ did, and not we? Is it Christs prayers, and alms, and charity and sufferings that the text meaneth? Look over many such texts and judge.
P. Say you so? Doth diligent seeking him, Heb. 11. 6. and praying and giving alms in secret, Matth. 6. 1, 2, 3, 4. and suffering for Christ, Matth. 5. 11, 12. and feeding, visiting, &c. Christ in his members, Matth. 25. &c. mean only that which Christ did, and not we? Is it Christs prayers, and almes, and charity and sufferings that the text meaneth? Look over many such texts and judge.
Lib. Still you would make my words contemptible. It is our duties that are rewarded, but it is not for themselves or any worth that is in them, but for the merits of Christ only.