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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. You confess then their confused Doctrine, and you cannot excuse many of their Doctors from gross error herein.
R. No, nor many honest pious persons that go for Protestants: What Papists have more plainly subverted the Gospel by their Doctrine on these subjects, than many of those called Antinomians have done by the contrary extreme? And who can justify all the sentences and phrases of many ⟨p. 282⟩eminent Divines among us? yea, or of many of the most wise and accurate? For when all are much ignorant, who can say, I do not err?
R. No, nor many honest pious persons that go for Protestants: What Papists have more plainly subverted the Gospel by their Doctrine on these subjects, than many of those called Antinomians have done by the contrary extream? And who can justifie all the sentences and phrases of many ⟨p. 282⟩eminent Divines among us? yea, or of many of the most wise and accurate? For when all are much ignorant, who can say, I do not err?
L. But undoubtedly you will be as bitterly censured for these your favourable interpretations of the Papists in the point of Merit, as if you were half a Papist your self, and were but such a Mongrel as Erasmus, Wicelius, Cassander, or Grotius, or as if your Conciliatory designs would carry you as far at last as Grotius, Mileterius, Baldwin, or at least, as Mountague, Guil. Forbes, and such others went. And others will then say, that you are justly served for writing so much against Grotius and his followers on this account as you have done, of which Bishop Bramhall and his Epistoler have already told you.