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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.
R. It seemeth you think not that you hold all this your self. Let us try. 1. By Merit, they still mean a subordinate Merit, which supposeth the Benefit 1. To be Gods Gift, 2. Merited by Christ.
L. How prove you that?
R. It is the express words of the Trent Council de Justif. Can. 8, We are said to be Justified gratis, because nothing that goeth before Justification, whether it be Faith or Works, doth merit the Grace it self of Justification: For if it be Grace, it is no more of Works; else Grace is not Grace. Can. 16. Though so much be given in Scripture to Good Works, that Christ promiseth him that giveth but a Cup of cold Water to one ⟨p. 267⟩of the least, that he shall not lose his reward,—yet far be it from a Christian to trust or glory in himself, and not in the Lord, whose Goodness is so great to all men, that he wills those things to be Their Merits, which are His Gifts. And Anath. C. 26. they thus open their Doctrine of Merit: If any say, that the Righteous ought not to expect eternal retribution from God by his Mercy and Christs Merits, for the good works done in God, if by well doing and keeping God Commandments they persevere to the end, let him be Anathema.