A26864:557
Rich. Baxters apology against the modest exceptions of Mr. T. Blake and the digression…
Rich. Baxters apology against the modest exceptions of Mr. T. Blake and the digression of Mr. G. Kendall whereunto is added animadversions on a late dissertation of Ludiomæus Colvinus, aliaà Ludovicus Molinæs̳, M. Dr. Oxon, and an admonition of Mr. W. Eyre of Salisbury : with Mr. Crandon's Anatomy for satisfaction of Mr. Caryl.
London: printed by A.M. for Thomas Underhill, 1654
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3. But I confess that upon more serious consideration of several passages in the New Testament, naming and describing the work of Redemption, I am ready to think it far more probable that Adam was not created in Patria, but in Via; not in the highest perfection which he should expect, but in the way to it. But whether God would have given it him in the same place that he was in, or in ⟨p. 112⟩some other (called Heaven) upon a remove, I take as Mr. Bl. doth, to be unrevealed, and undetermined in the Promise. So that I could find in my heart to fall a confuting the same opinion in Mr. Blake, expressed in these last words, which he confuteth in me; but that his former save me the labour.
3. But I confess that upon more serious consideration of several passages in the New Testament, naming and describing the work of Redemption, I am ready to think it far more probable that Adam was not created in Patria, but in Via; not in the highest perfection which he should expect, but in the way to it. But whether God would have given it him in the same place that he was in, or in ⟨p. 112⟩some other (called Heaven) upon a remove, I take as Mr. Bl. doth, to be unrevealed, and undetermined in the Promise. So that I could finde in my heart to fall a confuting the same opinion in Mr. Blake, expressed in these last words, which he confuteth in me; but that his former save me the labor.
4. I confess also that I spoke rashly in saying that it was the opinion of most Divines; seeing it so hard a matter to know which way most go in the point. I also confess that the judgement of Camero, Mr. Ball, Mr. Gataker, &c. swayed much with me; but the silence of the text in Gen. much more: but I had not so well weighed several Texts in the New Testament, as I ought, which describing Redemption, give some more light into the point. The same I say concerning the quality of the Death threatened.