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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. If this be all that those few highest Papists mean, then they are but more zealous in commending holiness than the looser sort, as the Religious Preachers with us are: And if this be indeed their meaning, they are unhappy in expressing themselves, or we in understanding them, and our hearers unhappy that upon such misunderstanding are taught to abhor them.
L. If this be all that those few highest Papists mean, then they are but more zealous in commending holiness than the looser sort, as the Religious Preachers with us are: And if this be indeed their meaning, they are unhappy in expressing themselves, or we in understanding them, and our hearers unhappy that upon such misunderstanding are taught to abhorr them.
R. You know 1. That by Justification they mean Remission of sin and Holiness: 2. And that they hold that no works merit, but those that are done by the members of Christ and by his spirit, in love and holiness: 3. And that they merit nothing but what is primarily Gods Gift: 4. Nor any thing but what is merited by Christ by another sort of merit, to which ours is but subordinate; 5. And that they commonly say that even faith it self doth not merit Justification (or Holiness;) because though it have a Promise of it, and so ex pacto it is due; yet there is in the nature of the things no necessary connection between them: And now what can they mean after all this by condignity ex proportione ▪ operis ad pr•mium, but this which I have described? Holiness is happiness and connected to happiness, in its various degrees.
R. You know 1. That by Justification they mean Remission of sin and Holiness: 2. And that they hold that no works merit, but those that are done by the members of Christ and by his spirit, in love and holiness: 3. And that they merit nothing but what is primarily Gods Gift: 4. Nor any thing but what is merited by Christ by another sort of merit, to which ours is but subordinate; 5. And that they commonly say that even faith it self doth not merit Justification (or Holiness;) because though it have a Promise of it, and so ex pacto it is due; yet there is in the nature of the things no necessary connexion between them: And now what can they mean after all this by condignity ex proportione operis ad prmium, but this which I have described? Holiness is happiness and connexed to happiness, in its various degrees.