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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.
I. Only by Pride cometh Contention, Prov. 13. 10. The Church-TYRANT is Proud of his Superiority and Wealth: The OPINIONIST is Proud of his supposed Knowledge and Theological Wisdom; on which account the Gnostics troubled the Church of old. The HYPOCRITE and the (honester) ignorant Zealot, is Proud of his supposed Holiness or Goodness: And for an eminency and precedency and praise in each of these, they all conspire (while they disagree ⟨image 8⟩among themselves) to trouble the Church of Christ: In a word, Selfishness, Ignorance and want of Love, are the Causes of mens personal ruin and damnation, and the same are the Causes of the Churches divisions, and all the miseries of the World.
I. Only by Pride cometh Contention, Prov. 13. 10. The Church-TYRANT is Proud of his Superiority and Wealth: The OPINIONIST is Proud of his supposed Knowledge and Theological Wisdom; on which account the Gnosticks troubled the Church of old. The HYPOCRITE and the (honester) ignorant Zealot, is Proud of his supposed Holiness or Goodness: And for an eminency and precedency and praise in each of these, they all conspire (while they disagree ⟨image 8⟩among themselves) to trouble the Church of Christ: In a word, Selfishness, Ignorance and want of Love, are the Causes of mens personal ruine and damnation, and the same are the Causes of the Churches divisions, and all the miseries of the World.
II. And that IGNORANCE is a Common cause even in the Gnostic Dogmatists that cry down Ignorance, Error and Heresy, needs no other proof, than the diversity of Opinions which such contend for: Every side pretend, that it is ORTHODOXNESS, FAITH or the Great Truths of God, which they defend; And in one Country or with one Party, one thing is Orthodoxness and the Truth, and another thing in another Country or Party, and another thing with a third, &c. And did they all but know what is Truth and the Will of God indeed, they would cease their Contentions; and all the Sects would meet in Unity.