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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
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3. And by making up a Religion much, if not far most, of external formalities, and a multitude of ceremonies, and the opus operatum of their various Sacraments; ⟨p. 71⟩As if God delighted in such actions as befit not the acceptance of a grave and sober man; or as if Guilt and Sin would be wiped off, and charmed away into virtue and holiness, by such corporeal motions, shows and words.
3. And by making up a Religion much, if not far most, of external formalities, and a multitude of ceremonies, and the opus operatum of their various Sacraments; ⟨p. 71⟩As if God delighted in such actions as befit not the acceptance of a grave and sober man; or as if Guilt and Sin would be wiped off, and charmed away into virtue and holiness, by such corporeal motions, shews and words.
XXII. Reason: Their Religion, though it thus tend to gratify the ungodly by deceitful remedies and hopes, yet is very uncomfortable to the godly. For, 1. By it no man can know that he is a true believer, and not a child of Hell, (much less that he shall be saved:) For they teach that no Divine can tell them what Articles are necessary to be believed to salvation: But they must be so many as are suited to every ones capacity, and means, during his life. And no man living can know that he understandeth and believeth as much as his capacity and means were in their kind sufficient to: Nay, there is no man that hath not been culpably ignorant of somewhat which he might have known.
XXII. Reason: Their Religion, though it thus tend to gratifie the ungodly by deceitful remedies and hopes, yet is very uncomfortable to the godly. For, 1. By it no man can know that he is a true believer, and not a child of Hell, (much less that he shall be saved:) For they teach that no Divine can tell them what Articles are necessary to be believed to salvation: But they must be so many as are suited to every ones capacity, and means, during his life. And no man living can know that he understandeth and believeth as much as his capacity and means were in their kind sufficient to: Nay, there is no man that hath not been culpably ignorant of somewhat which he might have known.