A26864:655
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
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.
§. 71.
R. B. 1. I know it not to be true of any man that he shall be saved. therefore I may not seal it to any, by your Concession. God-Seals to no falsehood; I know not whether it be true or false that A. B. shall be saved. Yet it is on some of the Opposers principles that I now argue.
R. B. 1. I know it not to be true of any man that he shall be saved. therefore I may not seal it to any, by your Concession. God-Seals to no falshood; I know not whether it be true or false that A. B. shall be saved. Yet it is on some of the Opposers principles that I now argue.
2. I desire you not to answer it as Bellarmines argument, but as mine, seeing you choose me to deal with. 3. The Argument makes as much against my asserting the Truth of your Conclusion, as the sealing it: so that let your sealing be Conditional or none at all, I may not so much as affirm to any man whose heart I know not, the Conclusion which you say I must seal. The Conclusion is Absolute, Thou A. B. art Justified and shalt be saved; though the Major Proposition, or or Universal Grant be conditional. Now if you will Seal this Absolute Conclusion conditionally, then 1. you will sin in the bare affirming it a true Conclusion, before you seal it, if you go but so fat. 2. What is the Condition that you mean? I suppose true Faith. But if so, then where there is not true Faith, there you do not Actually seal: For a Conditional sealing, is not Actual sealing till the condition be performed; for the condition not performed suspends the act. And then you have mistaken in thinking that the Covenant is sealed actually to the unregenerate or ungodly. But if you mean any thing short of true Faith, how can you on that condition seal to any man, that he is Justified, and shall be saved. I do therefore rather choose to say, If thou Believe thou shalt ⟨p. 129⟩