A26923:980
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.
§. 10. Thus much being commonly agreed on, should quiet the Minds of Divines that are not wise and righteous overmuch; and it beseemeth us not to make our arbitrary Words and Notions about the Doctrine of our Peace with God, to be Engines to break the Church's Peace, seeing Angels preached to us this great Truth; That Christ came into the World for GLORY to God in the highest, and for PEACE on Earth, and for GOOD-WILL or LOVE from God to Man (or mutual complacency;) and his Servants should not turn his Gospel into matter of strife.
§. 10. Thus much being commonly agreed on, should quiet the Minds of Divines that are not wise and righteous overmuch; and it beseemeth us not to make our arbitrary Words and Notions about the Doctrine of our Peace with God, to be Engines to break the Church's Peace, seeing Angels preached to us this great Truth; That Christ came into the World for GLORY to God in the highest, and for PEACE on Earth, and for GOOD-WILL or LOVE from God to Man (or mutual compla•ency;) and his Servants should not turn his Gospel into matter of strife.
§. 11. That which we are yet disagreed about, is the Names and Notions following: As, 1. What is meant by the Phrase of [Imputing] in several Texts of Scripture; as Rom. 4. 11. [That righteousness might be imputed (or reckoned) to them also.] Ans. The words seem to me to have no difficulty, but what men by wrangling put into them. To have righteousness imputed to them, is to be reputed, judged, or accounted as righteous ⟨p. 259⟩Men, and so used (the cause being not in the Phrase it self, but fore-described.)
§. 11. That which we are yet disagreed about, is the Names and Notions following: As, 1. What is meant by the Phrase of [Imputing] in several Texts of Scripture; as Rom. 4. 11. [That righteousness might be imputed (or reckoned) to them also.] Ans. The words seem to me to have no difficulty, but what men by wrangling put into them. To have righteousness impued to them, is to be reputed, judged, or accounted as righteous