A26883:1391
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.
83. Therefore no man is now condemned for Original Sin alone; Though it is pardoned to no man, till he perform the condition of it, in •he pardoning Covenant. For God having brought all men under terms •f mercy tending to recovery, they shall be judged as they use that recovering mercy, according to that Law of Grace which they are under, •hether of the first or last Edition.
83. Therefore no man is now condemned for Original Sin alone; Though it is pardoned to no man, till he perform the condition of it, in •he pardoning Covenant. For God having brought all men under terms •f mercy tending to recovery, they shall be judged as they use that reco•ering mercy, according to that Law of Grace which they are under, •hether of the first or last Edition.
84. The exception which some make of Infants is vain: Because as •ar as God hath revealed his mind about them to us, he esteemeth them •nd useth them as parts of their Parents and Owners, and if he condemn •hem, it is not for Adam's sin only, but also ultimately for their Parents •ejection of recovering Grace, and not devoting them to God in his Covenant. And though God will not condemn the Children for the Parents •in; that is, when they themselves repent and turn to God. But the Scripture is most plain and frequent in expressing our guilt of our nearer Pa•ents sins against Grace, which is a part of our Original Sin: and ought ot to be so slighted as usually it is. However, 1. It is an incredible pinion, That God should rule and judge all the rest of the world by a aw of Grace, and leave only poor Infants without any mercy, under the eer Law of Innocency, and judge them only by another Law, than he oth all the world. 2. And it is the trick of a Deceiver to argue ab gnotiore, and carry his Cause into the dark. And Infants Case is left to s in Scripture much darker than that of the adult.