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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 Second Part. OF GODS GOVERNMENT, AND MORAL WORKS. › A PREMONITION.
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.
An. I deny it: There are three Opinions more that are all more probable. The first which supposeth the Reward of life eternal due upon the over▪ coming of the Devils first temptation, which would have drawn from the Love of God; And so [Love and Conquer once] was the Condition. The second which supposeth that the Condition was the Conquest of this particular Temptation, to eat of the forbidden Fruit, and the after eating of the Tree of Life. The third which supposeth the only Condition of life eternal to the personal, perfect, perpetual Obedience, or perseverance, till God of his own pleasure should translate Adam, and end his life of trial. I take this last to have far most probability, for all the Reasons before given: I am sure that the tenor of the Law of Nature made it Adam's Duty still to love God, and obey him, and resist all that was against it: And I find no Promise that his Nature, or the Law of Nature should be changed, for this or that act, or for conquering some one temptation. I find that ⟨p. 12⟩Christ's own Covenant-Condition was more than one act: And the Condition of our Glory is overcoming, and being faithful to the death, and continuing in Christ. And I will not add to the Covenant of God.
§. 25. M. S. Arg. 4. From the nature of an obediental act: which includeth the approving of the whole Law.
An. 1. Approving the things that are excellent, is made consistent with wickedness, Rom. 2. But I will suppose you to mean a full consent to the Covenant of Innocency. But 2. How prove you that such consent was the whole condition of life, and that it might not be fallen from? and that Adam never did consent before his Fall? and yet not sin▪ 3. All the godly approve of Gods Law, and consent to it, and love it, and yet merit not as keepers of it; for they break it,