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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.
2. Satan hath here a far fairer bait, than worldly Wealth and Pleasures and Honours, to tempt men, and steal away their hearts, from that Love and Practice which is Holiness indeed. All men are bound to Love Gods Word, and his Truth must be precious to us all: and now it is easy for the hypocritical Dogmatist to take up here, and make himself a Religion of Zeal for those opinions, which he entitleth God to. And O that I could speak this loud enough to awaken the Learned World of Disputers, to so much jealousy of their own hearts, as is necessary to their own safety, as well as to the Churches peace! This thing called Orthodoxness, Truth and Right-believing (precious in it self, if it be what it is called,) is made by Satan an ordinary means to deceive Learned men, and keep them from a holy and heavenly mind and life, when grosser cheats would be less effectual: Theology is valued by many as the Mathematics are, as a pleasant sort of knowledge; and by others as the Jews were zealous of their Law, by a formal sort of Religiousness; one sort being zealous for their Opinions, and another for their Ceremonies from the like principle of formality.
2. Satan hath here a far fairer bait, than worldly Wealth and Pleasures and Honours, to tempt men, and steal away their hearts, from that Love and Practice which is Holiness indeed. All men are bound to Love Gods Word, and his Truth must be precious to us all: and now it is easie for the hypocritical Dogmatist to take up here, and make himself a Religion of Zeal for those opinions, which he entitleth God to. And O that I could speak this loud enough to awaken the Learned World of Disputers, to so much jealousie of their own hearts, as is necessary to their own safety, as well as to the Churches peace! This thing called Orthodoxness, Truth and Right-believing (precious in it self, if it be what it is called,) is made by Satan an ordinary means to deceive Learned men, and keep them from a holy and heavenly mind and life, when grosser cheats would be less effectual: Theologie is valued by many as the Mathematicks are, as a pleasant sort of knowledge; and by others as the Jews were zealous of their Law, by a formal sort of Religiousness; one sort being zealous for their Opinions, and another for their Ceremonies from the like principle of formality.