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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,…
Richard Baxter's Catholic theology plain, pure, peaceable, for pacification of the dogmatical word-warriors who, 1. by contending about things unrevealed or not understood, 2. and by taking verbal differences for real,Richard Baxter's Catholick theologie plain, pure, peaceable, for pacification of the dogmatical word-warriours who, 1. by contending about things unrevealed or not understood, 2. and by taking verbal differences for real,
London: printed by Robert White for Nevill Simmons, 1675
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.
SECT. XXI. Prosper's answers ad Object. Vincent.
662. I Will crave the Readers patience while I add the sum of hi• Answers also to some of the Objections of Vincentius.
662. I Will crave the Readers patience while I add the summ of hi• Answers also to some of the Objections of Vincentius.
Obj. 1. That Christ died not for all— Resp. His death is a remedy in it self sufficient to profit all; but if it be not taken it will not heal. Obj. 2. That God would not have all saved, though they would. Resp. We must sincerely believe and profess that God would have all saved:—That many perish, is by the merit of them that perish: That many are saved, is the gift of him that saved them. For that the guilty are damned is Gods inculpable justice; that the guilty are justified is Gods unspeakable grace. Obj. 3. That God made most of mankind that they might perish for ever. Resp. God is the Creator of all men; but No man is made by him that he might perish: For the cause of being born is one, and the cause of perishing is another. That men are born is Gods gift; that they perish, is the sinners desert: He maketh men, that they may be men— Obj. 4. That the most of men are made of God, not to do Gods will, but the Devils. Resp. It is madness, and against reason to say that it is by Gods will that Gods will is not done: and that the damner of the Devil and his servants would have the Devil served.— Obj. 5. That God is the author of our sin, in that he maketh mens wills evil, and maketh a substance which by natural motion cannot but sin. Resp. This objection they make because we hold original sin and misery—But we hold that whatever is of Nature is of God, and none of that which is contrary to Nature. But sin is contrary to nature, from whence cometh death, and all that is of death:—God is the author of no mans sin, but the Creator of his Nature, which voluntarily sinned, when it had Power not to sin; and by his own will man subjected himself to the deceiver. And it is not by Natural but by Captive Motion that he liveth in sin, till he die to sin, and live to God; which without grace he cannot do. Obj. 6. That God maketh in men such a will as is in Devils, that of its own motion can and will do nothing but evil. Resp. The whole world lieth in wickedness—But even very bad men may be reconciled, and Devils cannot.—And God put not evil affections in men. Obj. 7. That it is Gods will that a great part of Christians neither will nor can be saved. Resp.