A26864:713
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.
§ 79.
Mr. Bl. Even the Arminians Conditional incomplete Election, upon Condition of Faith and perseverance, they confess is absolute and complete, upon supposal of Faith and perseverance. This I take to be Mr. Baxters meaning, that upon supposal of Faith it Absolutely sealeth, which I willingly grant: but it is administered to many who never put in that Condition, nor come up to the terms of God, that believing they may be saved, and so in our sense it sealeth Conditionally.
Mr. Bl. EVen the Arminians Conditional incompleate Election, upon Condition of Faith and perseverance, they confess is absolute and compleat, upon supposal of Faith and perseverance. This I take to be Mr. Baxters meaning, that upon supposal of Faith it Absolutely sealeth, which I willingly grant: but it is administred to many who never put in that Condition, nor come up to the terms of God, that believing they may be saved, and so in our sense it sealeth Conditionally.
§. 79.
R. B. 1. I Have better expressed my own meaning. It is pity that the Reader should be troubled with so much, about so low a question, which of us two doth best express our meaning? but that I hope he may gather some things more useful on the by. In your sense, if it be according to your terms, God doth not actually Seal at all to any but the Godly, which is my main Argument against you. A Conditional seal, is not a seal till the Condition be performed.