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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
Part 1 › Chapter 3: What is the Religion of the Protestants.
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CHAP. III. What is the Religion of the Protestants.
R. I. The word [Religion] is sometimes taken Objectively; And so I mean by it▪ [The objects of Religious Belief, Love and Practice,] which are, 1. The Things themselves; which are the principal objects (called by Logicians, The Incomplex terms.) 2. The organical object; or the Revelation of these Things; containing 1. The Words or other. Signs: 2. The sense or notions signified. ⟨p. 10⟩For instance, Matth. 17.5. [This is my Beloved son in whom I am well pleased.] Here 1. The Real Incomplex object is Christ Himself, the beloved Son of God, and God the Fathers well-pleasedness in him. 2. The signal part of the organical object, or Revelation, is the Words themselves, as spoken then, and written now. 3. The signified notions are the Meaning of the words, and are the chief part of the organical object, that is the Divine Revelation. The word [Religion] is of larger extent in its sense than [Faith]; For it containeth all that Revelation which God hath made Necessary to salvation; which is twofold, 1. That which is to inform the understanding with necessary knowledge and faith. 2. That which is necessary to a Holy Will and a Holy Life, to the Love of God and man, and to well doing; which are Precepts, Promises and Threatenings. II. The word [Religion] is oft taken also subjectively (as they speak); For the Acts and habits of Love and Obedience. Now I suppose we are agreed that it is not Religion in this last sense that we are to dispute of (which is as divers as persons are:) But it is that which we call Objective Religion, even the Organical part directly. And if by all this D. understandeth us not, in plainer words, our Question is, Of the True Divine Revelation, viz. Which is the True Rule of Faith, Will and Practice; that which is held to be such by the Protestants: or that which is held to be such by the Papists?
R. I. THe word [Religion] is sometimes taken Objectively; And so I mean by it▪ [The objects of Religious Belief, Love and Practice,] which are, 1. The Things themselves; which are the principal objects (called by Logicians, The Incomplex terms.) 2. The organical object; or the Revelation of these Things; containing 1. The Words or other. Signs: 2. The sense or notions signified.