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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.
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.
II. And that IGNORANCE is a Common cause even in the Gnostick Dogmatists that cry down Ignorance, Error and Heresie, 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 Countrey or with one Party, one thing is Orthodoxness and the Truth, and another thing in another Countrey 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.
III. And did men but LOVE their neighbours as themselves, and were as easily persuaded to think well of, and deal gently with their neighbours as themselves, and as hardly drawn to condemn, hate, hurt or injure them, I need not tell you how easily, quickly and universally we should be healed.
III. And did men but LOVE their neighbours as themselves, and were as easily perswaded to think well of, and deal gently with their neighbours as themselves, and as hardly drawn to condemn, hate, hurt or injure them, I need not tell you how easily, quickly and universally we should be healed.