Richard Baxter's Catholick theologie: plain, pure, peaceable: for pacification of the dogmatical word-warriours, who, 1. By contending about things unrevealed or not understood, 2. And by taking verbal differences for real, and their arbitrary notions for necessary sacred truths, deceived and deceiving by ambiguous unexplained words, have long been the shame of the Christian religion, a scandal and hardning to unbelievers, the incendiaries, dividers and distracters of the church, the occasion of state discords and wars, the corrupters of the Christian faith, and the subverters of their own souls, and their followers, calling them to a blind zeal, and wrathful warfare, against true piety, love and peace, and teaching them to censure, backbite, slander, and prate against each other, for things which they never understood. In three books. I. Pacifying principles, about Gods decrees, fore-knowledge, providence, operations, redemption, grace, ... II. A pacifying praxis or dialogue, about th

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• Richard Baxter's Catholick theologie: plain, pure, peaceable: for pacification of the dogmatical word-warriours, who, 1. By contending about things unrevealed or not understood, 2. And by taking verbal differences for real, and their arbitrary notions for necessary sacred truths, deceived and deceiving by ambiguous unexplained words, have long been the shame of the Christian religion, a scandal and hardning to unbelievers, the incendiaries, dividers and distracters of the church, the occasion of state discords and wars, the corrupters of the Christian faith, and the subverters of their own souls, and their followers, calling them to a blind zeal, and wrathful warfare, against true piety, love and peace, and teaching them to censure, backbite, slander, and prate against each other, for things which they never understood. In three books. I. Pacifying principles, about Gods decrees, fore-knowledge, providence, operations, redemption, grace, ... II. A pacifying praxis or dialogue, about th
• Catholick theologie

People / Organizations

• Richard Baxter (Author)

Imprint

London: printed by Robert White, for Nevill Simmons at the Princes Arms in St. Pauls Church-yard, MDCLXXV. [1675]

Publication year

1675-1675

ESTC No.

R14583

Grub Street ID

62597

Description

[44], 136, [4], 124, [4], 118, [10], 299, [1] p., [1] leaf of plates : port. ; 2⁰

Note

Frontis. portrait of the author signed: R: White delin et sculp:.

Book one has a separate dated title page that reads: Catholick theology: The first book. Pacifying principles collected from the common notices of Nature, the certain oracles of God in the Holy Scriptures, and the common consent of Christians.." It is divided in three parts, each with separate dated title pages. Book two has a separate dated title page entitled: "Catholick theology: the second book. The Synodists and Arminians .. In a dialogue between C. (a Calvinist) A. (an Arminian) and B. (the reconciler): and others ..".

The third book was never published.

Leaf 4Q4 is blank.