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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.
L. But some say that Merit of condignity is ex proportione operum to the reward.
R. It's impossible to know what every man meaneth, and impossible to make all men speak congruously: But as far as I can discern, most of them that so speak, mean, that the most wise God doth all things in order and harmony, and as he suiteth natural causes and effects, so he doth gracious ones: And that his free grace putteth into mans holiness, a suitableness to the Reward, which is but a suitableness of the habit and act to the object: And that he that Loved God much shall be much happy in that Love, and be much beloved by him: And so every Saint enjoy God according to the proportion of his Love or holiness; and Glory be varied according to the degrees of Grace.
R. It's impossible to know what every man meaneth, and impossible to make all men speak congruously: But as far as I can discern, most of them that so speak, mean, that the most wise God doth all things in order and harmony, and as he suiteth natural causes and effects, so he doth gracious ones: And that his free grace putteth into mans holiness, a suitableness to the Reward, which is but a suitableness of the habit and act to the object: And that he that Loved God much shall be much happy in that Love, and be much beloved by him: And so every Saint enjoy God according to the proportion of his Love or holiness; and Glory be varyed according to the degrees of Grace.
L. This we all hold: But you make them sounder and wiser than they are.