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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. No: I cannot deny this sense to be sound.
P. Then you grant both Name and Thing: And are not you ashamed then to have so long traduced and reviled such as hold and say but that which you are forced to justify? and to make poor souls believe that works are cried up, and Christ is injured, and mens salvation hazarded by it, when yet you confess that all is true, in word and sense.
P. Then you grant both Name and Thing: And are not you ashamed then to have so long traduced and reviled such as hold and say but that which you are forced to justifie? and to make poor souls believe that works are cryed up, and Christ is injured, and mens salvation hazarded by it, when yet you confess that all is true, in word and sense.
Lib. But when the Papists abuse such phrases to error, though the Scripture use them, we must do it sparingly and with caution.
P. 1. But is that a good reason for you to revile those that use them in the Scripture sense? 2. And if you will forsake Scripture words as oft as men misuse them, it will be in the power of any Heretics to drive you from all Scripture phrase, by abusing all. 3. And how can you more effectually promote Popery, than by forsaking Scripture language, and leaving it to their possession and use? Will not men think then, that the Scripture sense is liker to be with them, than with you? Were it not better for you to hold to the Word of God, and only detect and disclaim mens ill expositions of it?