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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. I love not to persuade the World that men mean worse than they speak: What you mean by [too modest] I know not; but it is not true ⟨p. 268⟩either that they are few, or taken by their Church for half heretics. And truth is well served by nothing but truth. But the author you mean, doth well in not opposing those that are of this mind, nor those that deny all merit of congruity; and in acknowledging that such there are. He is a stranger to the Popish Doctors who either taketh the Scotists themselves to be few (or judged half heretics) or else that it is they only that are of that opinion: of which more anon.
R. I love not to perswade the World that men mean worse than they speak: What you mean by [too modest] I know not; but it is not true ⟨p. 268⟩either that they are few, or taken by their Church for half hereticks. And truth is well served by nothing but truth. But the author you mean, doth well in not opposing those that are of this mind, nor those that deny all merit of congruity; and in acknowledging that such there are. He is a stranger to the Popish Doctors who either taketh the Scotists themselves to be few (or judged half hereticks) or else that it is they only that are of that opinion: of which more anon.
L. But what mean they that say it is ex Dignitate, if not as profiting God?
R. 1. I tell you they almost all conclude against commutative merit, and who is so mad as to think that we profit God? 2. I tell you that you may also ask what the Scripture meaneth by worthiness; And how else will you translate [Greek or Hebrew] but worthy or deserving? And what is [Greek or Hebrew] but Mer 3. They mean [the Moral aptitude of Well-doing for the promised Reward:] And do you deny that?