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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. I know not how much men may mean worse than they speak: but these words are such as the best Protestants use.
R. They are the words (translated) of the aforesaid Fr. Tolet a Jesuit and Cardinal on Rom. 3. pag. 157, 158, 159. But still remember, that by Justification they mean the holy effect of the Spirit on the soul; and indeed by Remission of sin, they most commonly mean the destroying or mortifying sin within us, and ceasing to commit the act: And they are dark and confused in these matters.
L. But do not Papists hold forgiveness of deserved punishment?
R. Yes: but they bring it in disorderly, and on other occasions: But if they did not, how could they hold, that any sin past from our childhood till Conversion is Remitted or pardoned? For the Act is past as soon as done, & factum infectum fieri non potest: and so such past sins can have no remission, but forgiving the penalty, and healing the effects. And wrangling Papists consider not that this is the Remission that Protestants mean, who call their kind of Remission by the name of mortification: And so we endlessly quarrel about words, through our unhappy imperfection in the art of speaking, and words being arbitrary signs, the world is come to no agreement of their sense.