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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.
§. 37 And indeed, besides Mr. Pemble and Dr. Twice (both excellent Men) it's rare to meet with any English Divine that talks for Eternal Justification: And Mr. Pemble, who let fall some such things in his Vindiciae Gratiae, did set all right again in his Treatise of Justification (being very young when he wrote even the last:) And Dr. Twice, who in his Vindic. Gratiae, hath some such words, speaketh elsewhere soundly, as Mr. Jessop his Scholar hath showed in a Treatise purposely written to prove it, when I had taken exceptions against his words.
§. 37 And indeed, besides Mr. Pemble and Dr. Twisse (both excellent Men) it's rare to meet with any English Divine that talks for Eternal Iustification: And Mr. Pemble, who let fall some such things in his Vindiciae Gratiae, did set all right again in his Treatise of Iustification (being very young when he wrote even the last:) And Dr. Twisse, who in his Vindic. Gratiae, hath some such words, speaketh elsewhere soundly, as Mr. Iessop his Scholar hath shewed in a Treatise purposely written to prove it, when I had taken exceptions against his words.
§. 38. It is therefore shameless Calumny of those who persuade their Followers, That the Reformed Churches take Faith for such an Assurance or Belief, that we are justified or elected, and shall be saved; only because they find some such word in some former disputing Doctors of ⟨p. 237⟩ours; when as all, or near all have so long renounced that Opinion, that he would be a Wonder among us in England, Scotland, or Ireland (and I think abroad) that should hold it.
§. 38. It is therefore shameless Calumny of those who perswade their Followers, That the Reformed Churches take Faith for such an Assurance or Belief, that we are justified or elected, and shall be saved; only because they find some such word in some former disputing Doctors of ⟨p. 237⟩ours; when as all, or near all have so long renounced that Opinion, that he would be a Wonder among us in England, Scotland, or Ireland (and I think abroad) that should hold it.