A26923:629
An end of doctrinal controversies which have lately troubled the churches
An end of doctrinal controversies which have lately troubled the churches by reconciling explication without much disputing. Written by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for John Salusbury, 1691
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.
§. 16. But if the stress of the Controversy be laid on Christ's personating or representing this man or that, by that time this (humane, invented, ambiguous, unscriptural) Phrase is explained, either we shall be •ound to be all of a mind, or else some will run into an intolerable error about [Christ's dying and meriting in our civil person, and our dying and meriting by his natural person]; or else they will dispute themselves into a Wood of Uncertainties, and be lost about the sense of a word that cannot be sufficiently explained.
§. 16. But if the stress of the Controversie be laid on Christ's personating or representing this man or that, by that time this (humane, invented, ambiguous, unscriptural) Phrase is explained, either we shall be •ound to be all of a mind, or else some will run into an intolerable errour about [Christ's dying and meriting in our civil person, and our dying and meriting by his natural person]; or else they will dispute themselves into a Wood of Uncertainties, and be lost about the sence of a word that cannot be sufficiently explained.
§. 17. And they that will lay the stress of the Controversy on the Aptitude or the Event, must be men of some singular Conceits, and not of the common judgment of the Reformed Churches, the Lutherans, the Jesuits, or the Dominicans, if they ⟨p. 160⟩will disagree; for here we are commonly agreed.
§. 17. And they that will lay the stress of the Controversie on the Aptitude or the Event, must be men of some singular Conceits, and not of the common judgment of the Reformed Churches, the Lutherans, the Iesuites, or the Dominicans, if they ⟨p. 160⟩will disagree; for here we are commonly agreed.