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Of justification four disputations clearing and amicably defending the truth against the unnecessary oppositions…
Of justification four disputations clearing and amicably defending the truth against the unnecessary oppositions of divers learned and reverend brethren / by Richard Baxter ...
London: printed by R.W. for Nevil Simmons, 1658
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.
Proposition 1. The difference amongst Protestants about this Question is not of so great moment, that either party must Eonomine be judged to deny the Essentials (or Fundamentals) of the faith, and so to be of a different Religion from the other, or to fall short of Salvation.
I lay down this Proposition first, Because of the Papists who stand looking upon all our differences with a mind too like the mind of the Devil; rejoicing in them, and endeavouring to increase them, and to make them seem greater in the eyes of the world than indeed they are, that so they may make use of them for the reproaching of our Profession, and take an advantage from them to make the truth and Servants of Christ become odious unto others.
I lay down this Proposition first, Because of the Papists who stand looking upon all our differences with a mind too like the mind of the Devil; rejoycing in them, and endeavouring to encrease them, and to make them seem greater in the eyes of the world than indeed they are, that so they may make use of them for the reproaching of our Profession, and take an advantage from them to make the truth and Servants of Christ become odious unto others.
Secondly, And I do it also for the sake of some (even too many) among our selves, that speak of controversies as they are concerned in them, or as the party to whom they join doth speak of them, or as they appear to them in the dark, or at a distance, or upon a hasty superficial search; but have not the skill (nor some of them, the will) to open the true state of a Controversy, and make the difference appear no wider, then indeed it is.
Secondly, And I do it also for the sake of some (even too many) among our selves, that speak of controversies as they are concerned in them, or as the party to whom they joyn doth speak of them, or as they appear to them in the dark, or at a distance, or upon a hasty superficial search; but have not the skil (nor some of them, the will) to open the true state of a Controversie, and make the difference appear no wider, then indeed it is.