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,…

L. But yet this Jesuit elsewhere is one of the greatest defenders of merit, for all that he saith in the words recited.

L. But yet this Jesuite elsewhere is one of the greatest defenders of merit, for all that he saith in the words recited.

R. Do you mean the Name or Thing? If the Name 1. Sure you will not make that a matter of much quarrel: 2. If you do, you must quarrel also with all the ancient Fathers; even with Augustine who (as Melanchthon saith, Loc. com. de Lib. arb. of his use of the word free-will) doth use it throughout all his Volumes. 3. And if [Greek or Hebrew] be well translated Worthiness or Merit, you must quarrel with Christ and his Apostles also, (of which before.)

R. Do you mean the Name or Thing? If the Name 1. Sure you will not make that a matter of much quarrel: 2. If you do, you must quarrel also with all the ancient Fathers; even with Augustine who (as Melancthon saith, Loc. com. de Lib. arb. of his use of the word free-will) doth use it throughout all his Volumes. 3. And if 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 be well translated Worthiness or Merit, you must quarrel with Christ and his Apostles also, (of which before.)

L. But Aquinas his followers use the word Merits in a worser sense, and many a volume they have written partly to assert it and defend it.