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Full and easy satisfaction which is the true and safe religion in a conference…Full and easie satisfaction which is the true and safe religion in a conference…
Full and easy satisfaction which is the true and safe religion in a conference between D. a doubter, P. a papist, and R. a reformed Catholic Christian : in four parts ... / by Richard Baxter.Full and easie satisfaction which is the true and safe religion in a conference between D. a doubter, P. a papist, and R. a reformed Catholick Christian : in four parts ... / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for Nev. Simmons, 1674
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.
P. I grant that he that truly Loveth God, shall be saved: But a Protestant cannot truly love God, because he hath not true faith.
R. Do you not agree and confess then, that If any Protestants do truly Love God, and are sincerely willing to obey his will, and to know it that they may obey it, such are of the true Religion and shall be saved, and that popery which denieth their salvation is false?
R. Do you not agree and confess then, that If any Protestants do truly Love God, and are sincerely willing to obey his will, and to know it that they may obey it, such are of the true Religion and shall be saved, and that popery which denyeth their salvation is false?
P. If your false supposition were true, these false consequents would be true: But you are all deceived when you think that you sincerely Love God, and are willing to know and do his will.
R. 1. Let all Protestants note this first, that you grant that none but ☞ falsehearted Hypocrites, that are not what they profess to be, and Love not God, nor would obey him, should turn Papists. 2. And if a man cannot know his own Mind and Will, what he Loveth and what he is willing of, no not about his End and greatest concernments, how can he know when he Believeth aright? Why do you trouble the world thus with your noise about Believing the Proposals of your Church, if a man cannot know whether he believe or not? ☞ And he that cannot know what he Willeth, Chooseth or Loveth, can no more know what he believeth. For the Acts of the Will are more plenary and easily perceived. And do all Papists know their own Hearts or Minds, but no Protestants? What would you expect but indignation and derision by such arguing as this, if you will go about the world and tell men, [You none of you know your own Minds and wills, but we know them; You think you Love God, and are willing to obey him; but you are all mistaken, it is not so with you: but you must believe our Pope and his Council, and then you may know your own minds and hearts.] They that believe you on these rates, deserve the deceit of believing you; and punish themselves.