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,…

P. That is but your peevish inference: But little do you know how much of Popery it self you have, while you think that you hate it more than I.

P. That is but your pievish inference: But little do you know how much of Popery it self you have, while you think that you hate it more than I.

S. You would make me believe any thing, if you make me think that I have more of Popery than you.

P. 1. Do not you agree with them in confining the Catholic Church to one Sect or Party? only They to their Sect, and You to yours. 2. Do you not agree with them in your vehement condemnation of dissenters? only they excommunicate and burn them, and you deny them your communion and reproach them: But their charity extendeth much further than yours, and you condemn more dissenters than they do. 3. Do you not agree with them in being superstitious, by a great deal of self-made Duty and Sin? only theirs and yours are not in the same things: They say, Touch not, taste not, handle not some things, and you other things, while you say that God hath forbidden forms of prayer, and many lawful circumstances of Worship, and other such like. And I now entreat you and all the servants of Christ soberly to consider, whether a wild injudicious calling sound Doctrine and Practices Antichristian, and using that name as a bugbear for want of solid argument, and an injudicious running from Papists into the contrary errors and extremes, hath not brought on many the guilt and misery which in all the following particulars I shall open to you. 1. Such men have corrupted the Gospel of Christ, by bringing in many doctrinal errors, and opening a door to the heretical to bring in more. Almost all the Libertine Antinomian errors, have come in by an injudicious opposition to Popery, as if they were the Vindication of Election, Free Grace, Christs Righteousness, Justification by faith, Perseverance, against mans Works and Merits: And it is not to be denied, that the said Libertine Doctrines do more contradict the Doctrine of the Gospel, even Christianity it self, than the Doctrine of the Papists about the same subjects do. I know this to be true, who ever is offended at it: Aquinas, Scotus, Gabriel, Bellarmine, Pererids, Tolet, yea, Vasquez, Suarez and Molina are not near so erroneous about Justification, Grace, Faith and good works, as Richardson, Randal, Simpson, Town, Crispe, Saltmarsh, and many such others are. Yet how many Religious people have I known, that have gloried in these errors as the sweet discoveries of free grace! 2. Such erroneous extremes in opposition to Popery have greatly dishonoured the Reformers, and Reformation. When it cannot be denied but such and such errors are found among them, it maketh all the Reformation suspected: