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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. Well, suppose that our actions and we are worthy of Praise, that is, to be called as they are; yet they are worthy also of dispraise, that is, to be accounted as menstruous rags, defiled with sin, and deserving Hell; and is not this a pitiful praise?
Lib. Well, suppose that our actions and we are worthy of Praise, that is, to be called as they are; yet they are worthy also of dispraise, that is, to be accounted as menstruous rags, defiled with sin, and deserving Hell; and is not this a pittiful praise?
P. Did you ever hear us deny any of this? Why talk you of that which we are all agreed in? But 1. It is not holiness, but the faulty imperfections of it, and the sin that is contrary to it, which deserveth Hell. 2. And the faults of sincere believers deserve not Hell according to the Law of Grace, by which we are to be judged, so as to be liable to it, but only so as to be accounted condemnable, had we not been pardoned.
P. Did you ever hear us deny any of this? Why talk you of that which we are all agreed in? But 1. It is not holiness, but the faulty imperfections of it, and the sin that is contrary to it, which deserveth Hell. 2. And the faults of sincere believers deserve not Hell according to the Law of Grace, by which we are to be judged, so as to be lyable to it, but only so as to be accounted condemnable, had we not been pardoned.
Lib. But if our faith and holiness deserve some praise, what's that to the deserving of salvation? or being worthy of Heaven?