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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
The First Part: OF THE NATURE, KNOWLEDGE, WILL AND DECREES of GOD,… › Section 24: On the other side.
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685. And I desire the Reader to note his Order of the Decrees (for they must all be meddling with the Order of Gods inward acts▪ But he doth i• most briefly and plainly thus) ib. cap. 9.
685. And I desire the Reader to note his Order of the Decrees (for they must all be medling with the Order of Gods inward acts▪ But he doth i• most briefly and plainly thus) ib. cap. 9.
[According to our mode of understanding, this seemeth to be the Order of Predestination in Gods mind: 1. God foreseeth that if he make man he will fall with all his posterity; And withal he seeth th•• he can deliver all or some as he please. 2. He decreeth (or willeth) to create man, and to permit him to fall, and mercifully to deliver some of the number of the fallen, leaving others justly in the mass of perdition. 3. He contrived apt remedies for the saving of the elect: I• which the incarnation and passion of our Saviour hath the first place▪ 4. He approved those remedies, and then chose Christ and us in him, before the Constitution of the World. 5. He disposed, ordained, and in a sort commanded that so it should be done.]
Is not this as high as the Synod of Dort goeth? yea, more rigid than many of the Suffrages? For he mentioneth no giving of Christ, or any remedy at all to any but the Elect, nor carrying the rest any further tha• the common mass of perdition, before they be forsaken; contrary to what Martinius, Crocius, Molinaeus, the British Divines, and others delivered to or in that Synod: And indeed it is unsound.