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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.
P. Doth not the usage of the World distinguish between a mere Gift and a Reward? What if you give money to the next man you meet without respect to any thing in him, will you call it a Reward? Review all the Scripture Texts that speak of a Reward, and see whether they have no relation to any foregoing act in man. God gave Christ himself to the lapsed world: Was this Gift of Christ a Reward? God gave some Prophets, some Apostles, &c. and giveth the Gospel to Infidel Nations: Is this Gift a Reward? or ever so called? Your humane nature is Gods Gift: but is it a Reward? Nay, will you say, that the first Grace is a Reward; which is said to be Pelagianism?
P. Doth not the usage of the World distinguish between a meer Gift and a Reward? What if you give money to the next man you meet without respect to any thing in him, will you call it a Reward? Review all the Scripture Texts that speak of a Reward, and see whether they have no relation to any foregoing act in man. God gave Christ himself to the lapsed world: Was this Gift of Christ a Reward? God gave some Prophets, some Apostles, &c. and giveth the Gospel to Infidel Nations: Is this Gift a Reward? or ever so called? Your humane nature is Gods Gift: but is it a Reward? Nay, will you say, that the first Grace is a Reward; which is said to be Pelagianism?
Lib. Well: but Rewards are Gods second Gifts as they follow the former, without respect to Worthiness or Merit.
P. That cannot be neither: If God first Give the world a Saviour, and then give them the Covenant of Grace and Pardon through him, is this a Reward? If Christ first heal the sick man, and then cause him to walk, or if Peter and John first heal the lame man, and then cause him joyfully to leap, &c. is the second a Reward? If an Infidels Life be first preserved, and then the Gospel given him, is this a Reward?