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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.
74. But yet though some degree of the Spirit be presently given to every Believer, it is usually but a spark at first; And there are further means and conditions appointed us for the increase, and actual helps from day to day: And he that will not wait on the Spirit in the use of those means, doth forfeit his help according to his neglect.
75. Hence it is that most, if not all Christians have lower measures of the Spirit than otherwise they might have, and that judicially as a punishment for Sin; However God is free herein, and if he please may give more even to them that forfeit it.
76. This Covenant of Grace, being a conditional pardon of all the world, 1is universal in the tenor or sense of it; It is of all Mankind without exception that Christ saith, If thou confess with thy mouth, and believe i• thy heart, thou shalt be saved: No person antecedently is excluded in the world.
- 1The extent of the New Covenant.