The Grotian religion discovered, at the invitation of Mr. Thomas Pierce in his Vindication. With a preface, vindicating the Synod of Dort from the calumnies of the new Tilenus; and David, Peter, &c. And the Puritanes, and sequestrations, &c. from the censures of Mr. Pierce. / By Richard Baxter, Catholick.

SECT. LXIV.

IF after all this noise and bitter accusati∣on of the Reformed Churches which * 1.1 he poureth out, it should be made appear, that the difference between the Protestants and many Papists in certainty of Salvati∣on (excepting the point of perseverance) is next to none; yea Alvarez. in Re∣spons. ad Object. saith that some Jesuites, naming Gregory de Valentia, do maintain not only a cerrainty of perseverance it self, but a necessity in the confir∣med; and if it shall be made appear that in the very points of imputed Righte••••sness, of Free will, of Reprobation, of universal Redemption, the difference between the Remonstrants and the Synod of Dort, is incomparably smaller then Grotius makes it, and so that his alienation and censures run upon a meer mistake, that he odiously aggravates the opinions that deserve it not, or that were far ne••rer his own then he imagined; what a dishonour would this be

to his bitter censures, reproaches and cla∣mours, and to his factious uncharitable way of Pacification, that must exclude men as uncapable of the Churches Peace, that the Lord of the Church and Peace will not exclude? and that on such mistakes he should change his Church or Religion, was none of his honour. But then I must add, that when he takes all unmeet ex∣pressions that he can find in any Divines, as if they were the common doctrine of that party, he is guilty of his own mistakes, and deals as he would not do by the Pa∣pists.

Notes

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  §. 64.