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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.
376. 6. They all confess that our Lord Jesus, his Prophets, Apostles, or Scriptures, lead them not this way, and decide not these Controversies, so as that they can stand to their decision alone.
377. 7. They cannot deny, but that desiring arrogantly to be as Gods in Knowledge, was our first Parents sin, that ruined them and us, and that this was Satan's first successful game. And that our disease is like to be such as its original.
377. 7. They cannot deny, but that desiring arrogantly to be as Gods in Knowledge, was our first Parents sin, that ruined them and us, and that this was Satans first successful game. And that our disease is like to be such as its original.
378. 8. Lastly, They cannot choose but know, that it is the troubling of the Church with new Articles, and new practices, and leading them from the simplicity that is in Christ, even as the Serpent beguiled Eve, (with the promise of more knowledge,) which hath been the great plague and divider of the Churches in all Ages; though the Apostle foretold them that It was this that he feared of them. And are we not self-condemned, if after all this, we will censure and reproach one another, and foment divisions for that which most certainly no mortal understandeth?