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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. III. You bring in your doctrine of personal Righteousness to Justification, by feigning Christ to have made a new Law; whereas the Gospel is but a Doctrine, History and Promise, and not a Law, and so no Rule of Righteousness and Judgement; And this many Protestants have asserted.
Lib. III. YOu bring in your doctrine of personal Righteousness to Justification, by feigning Christ to have made a new Law; whereas the Gospel is but a Doctrine, History and Promise, and not a Law, and so no Rule of Righteousness and Judgement; And this many Protestants have asserted.
P. I have read some such sayings in some men: And some I think meant no more, but that Christ did only expound, and not add to the Law of Nature, called by them the Moral Law: And these I have excused for their unhappy kind of expression. But for the rest, that mean as the words sound universally, they subvert Christianity, and as the Arians denied Christs Godhead, so do they his Office and Government, and are somewhat worse than the Quakers, who say, that the Spirit within us, is the Law and Rule of Christ; which is better than none: I pray answer me, Quest. 1. Is Christ the King and Ruler of the Church?
P. I have read some such sayings in some men: And some I think meant no more, but that Christ did only expound, and not add to the Law of Nature, called by them the Moral Law: And these I have excused for their unhappy kind of expression. But for the rest, that mean as the words sound universally, they subvert Christianity, and as the Arrians denyed Christs Godhead, so do they his Office and Government, and are somewhat worse than the Quakers, who say, that the Spirit within us, is the Law and Rule of Christ; which is better than none: I pray answer me, Quest. 1. Is Christ the King and Ruler of the Church?