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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. It can never enter into my thoughts that so many Godly Learned Protestants would make odious the Papists, if some of them at least meant no worse.
R. Know you not that judicious George Major was made the head of Heretics, by Gallus, Amsdorfius, &c. for but saying, Bona opera sunt necessaria ad salutem: Read your Schlusselburgius of his heresy, and judge as you see cause. But whereas our Divines in confuting merit, do still describe it as of commutative justice, and not as of paternal Governing distributive Justice according to the Law of Grace, I will yet tell you what is said by Vasquez the Jesuit in 1 Thom. qu. 21. disp. 83. c. 1. & 2. & sequent. Which when you have read, I will appeal to common Reason and Christianity, 1. Whether it be not a sinful thing for ignorant Protestants to take it upon one another's reports that the Papists hold that doctrine of merits, which they do not, and so to make them unjustly more erroneous and odious than they are? 2. Whether it be not a very sinful serving of the Devil, for unlearned Divines that have read little of the Papists writings, to backbite and calumniate those of us who truly state the Controversy, and narrow the differences, as if we made the Papists better than they are, and took their parts, merely because we would have no good men belie them? 3. Whether it be not the way to harden and increase the Papists, to find such false dealing among their adversaries? Cap. 1. Vasquez falls upon some late Doctors who say that [Commutative Justice is properly and formally in God:] yet they say that it is not in God as it is in men, nor as including any imperfection: In the second Chapter he maintaineth, that Commutative Justice is not in God, according to propriety of speech: and that this is the judgement of all the former School Doctors to a man; He citeth many whom I recite to show that he is not singular: [Alex. Alens. 1. p. q. 39. m. 1. Scot. in 1. d. 46. q. 1. in solut. arg. Richard. art. 1. qu. 1. Durand. q. 1. Palud. q. 1. art. 1. Capreol. in 1. d. 45. q. 1. art. 1. Concl. 14. & art. 3. ad arg. S. Thom. 1. contra g. c. 39. & ibid. Ferrariens. Hosius in Confess. Polon. c. 73. Ruard. art. 11. Sot. 3. de nat. & grat. c. 7. & 3. de Justit. q. 5. art. ult. ad. 1. Cajet. in hunc art. Joh. Bunder. in Compend. Concert. tit. 6. art. 7. Gabr. Biel supplem. in 4. d. 49. q. 4. art. 4. dub. 3. Bonavent. in 4. d. 46. art. 2. q. 1. ad 2. S. Thom. 1. 2. q. 114. art. 1. Conrad. ibid. Durand. iterum in 2. d. 27. q. 2. Perrar. cont. Gent. 3. c. 179.]