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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.
And as to Popery I have certainly ⟨image 3⟩found, that the Cross Interests and Passions of Disputers have made us (though really too distant) to seem commonly about many Doctrinals more distant than indeed we are: And that it had been better with us, if such men as judicious Ludov. le Blank, had had the stating of our Controversies at the first, that differing words and methods might not have passed with either side for damnable errors in the faith. I mean in the points of fore-knowledge, predestination, providence, predetermination, concurse, original sin, free-will, universal Redemption, sufficient Grace, effectual Grace, the nature of Faith, Justification, Sanctification, Merit, Good Works, Certainty of Justification, and of Salvation, Perseverance, &c. For my knowing this to be true, I am censured by those on one extreme, as too favourable to the Papists (being indeed an Enemy to injury, calumny, uncharitableness or cruelty to any in the world.) But I am much more displeasing to the ⟨image 4⟩Roman party; Because I know, that One man is naturally uncapable of being the Monarch of all the world: That the King of Rome (as the Geographia Nubiensis calls him) was never by Christ made King of Kings and Lord of Lords: That he never was, nor can be a Pastor at the Antipodes, and over all the Earth, or as far as Drake and Candish did Navigate: That it's a sorry Argument, [Monarchy is the best Government: Ergo, An universal Monarchy is best:] That the Government settled in Nature and Scripture, is for Princes to rule Churchmen and all, by the Sword, and the Pastors of all particular Churches, to rule their Congregations by the Church-Keys, that is, by the Word, using Synods for due concord and correspondency: And this much will do better than all the stir that the Clergies Ambition hath made in the world.
And as to Popery I have certainly ⟨image 3⟩found, that the Cross Interests and Passions of Disputers have made us (though really too distant) to seem commonly about many Doctrinals more distant than indeed we are: And that it had been better with us, if such men as judicious Ludov. le Blank, had had the stating of our Controversies at the first, that differing words and methods might not have passed with either side for damnable errors in the faith. I mean in the points of fore-knowledge, predestination, providence, predetermination, concurse, original sin, free-will, universal Redemption, sufficient Grace, effectual Grace, the nature of Faith, Justification, Sanctification, Merit, Good Works, Certainty of Justification, and of Salvation, Perseverance, &c. For my knowing this to be true, I am censured by those on one extream, as too favourable to the Papists (being indeed an Enemy to injury, calumny, uncharitableness or cruelty to any in the world.) But I am much more displeasing to the