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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.
S. But it is a time now when Popery is striving to rise again, and how unseasonably would you abate mens zeal against it?
P. No more than he was against his Lawyers Zeal, who grew hoarse with senseless bawling for him, saying, I am glad he hath lost his voice, or else I might have lost my Cause. I am so much against Popery, that I wish it wiser and abler adversaries, than self-conceited unstudied Zealots, who will honour Popery, by entitling it to the Truths of God, and the Consent of the Ancient or Universal Church; or would make people believe, that it consisteth in some good or indifferent things, as in some Doctrines, Forms or Government, which others can see no harm in; And so teach men to say, If this be Popery, we will rather be Papists, than of them that rave as in their sleep, against they know not what. Could these men be persuaded to lay out their Zeal and diligence, in propagating the practical knowledge of Christianity it self, and let things alone which they understand not, and SUSPEND TILL THEY HAVE THROUGHLY STUDIED, or at least to forbear hindering wiser men, and calumniating and backbiting those that would by wisdom defend that truth which by folly and rashness they go about to betray, they might be meet for their share of that honour which now they forfeit.
P. No more than he was against his Lawyers Zeal, who grew hoarse with senseless bawling for him, saying, I am glad he hath lost his voice, or else I might have lost my Cause. I am so much against Popery, that I wish it wiser and abler adversaries, than self-conceited unstudied Zealots, who will honour Popery, by entitling it to the Truths of God, and the Consent of the Antient or Universal Church; or would make people believe, that it consisteth in some good or indifferent things, as in some Doctrines, Forms or Government, which others can see no harm in; And so teach men to say, If this be Popery, we will rather be Papists, than of them that rave as in their sleep, against they know not what. Could these men be perswaded to lay out their Zeal and diligence, in propagating the practical knowledge of Christianity it self, and let things alone which they understand not, and SUSPEND TILL THEY HAVE THROUGHLY STUDIED, or at least to forbear hindering wiser men, and calumniating and backbiting those that would by wisdom defend that truth which by folly and rashness they go about to betray, they might be meet for their share of that honour which now they forfeit.