Richard Baxter's Catholic theology plain, pure, peaceable, for pacification of the dogmatical word-warriors who,…Richard Baxter's Catholick theologie plain, pure, peaceable, for pacification of the dogmatical word-warriours who,…

Sent. 1. Whoever saith, that by Gods Predestination, as by fatal necessity, men compelled into sins, are constrained to death, is not a Catholic. For Gods Predestination doth by no means make men bad, nor is the cause of any mans sin. Sent. sup. 2. He that saith, that the Grace of Baptism received doth not take away Original sin from them that are not predestinated to life, is not a Catholic. For the Sacrament of Baptism, by which all sins ¹are blotted out, is true even in them who will not remain in the truth, and for them that are not predestinated unto life. Sent. sup. 3. He that saith, that they that are not predestinated to life, though they were in Christ regenerated by Baptism, and have lived piously and justly, it profitteth them nothing, but they are so long reserved till they fall to ruin, and they are not taken out of this life till this happen to them, as if the ruin of such men were to be referred to Gods constitution, is not a Catholic. For God doth not therefore prolong the time of any mans age, that by long living he should fall to ruin; and in his long living, fall from the right •aith: seeing long life is to be numbered with the gifts of God, by which a man should be better and not worse. Sent. sup. 4. He that saith, that all are not called to Grace, if he speak of such as Christ is not declared to, is not to be reprehended— Sent. sup. 5. He that saith, that they that are called, are not equally called, but some that they might believe, and some that they might not believe, as if to any man the Vocation were the cause of his not believing, saith not right. For though faith be not but by Gods Gift, and Mans Will, yet Infidelity is by mans will alone. Sent. 6. He that saith, that Pree-will in Man is Nothing, but it's Gods predestination which worketh in men, whether it be to good or to evil, is not a Catholic: For Gods Grace doth not abolish mans choice (or free-will) but perfecteth it; and revoketh and reduceth it into the way from error, that that which was bad by its own liberty, may by the operation of Gods Spirit be made right. And Gods predestination is always in Good; which knoweth how either to pardon with the ⟨p. 116⟩praise of mercy, or punish with the praise of Justice, the sin which is committed by mans will alone. Sent. 7.

Sent. 1. Whoever saith, that by Gods Predestination, as by fatal necessity, men compelled into sins, are constrained to death, is not a Catholick. For Gods Predestination doth by no means make men bad, nor is the cause of any mans sin. Sent. sup. 2. He that saith, that the Grace of Baptism received doth not take away Original sin from them that are not predestinated to life, is not a Catholick. For the Sacrament of Baptism, by which all sins