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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.
His first Argument is, [God can do that immediately which he can do by ••y second Cause efficient or final: *But Love or Grace given is an effici•t or final second Cause: Therefore God can save a man without it.]
- *Can they tell us intelligibly how the sin of Unbelief and not-loving God, and other privations can be really put away, without the contrary quality or act? Scotus, with Rada & other Scotists go the same way upon the same false suppositions. And to confute one of them, is to confute all. And so the Papists that say Original Sin is forgiven in Baptism, as to the whole calpability and penalty (as Petavins in Elench. Theriac. Vincent-Lenis (i. e. Fromondi) p. 111. c. 2•.) do grossly err: For 1. It cannot be that the pravity of mans will should not be culpable? 2. And the remaining of that pravity is it self a great punishment of the sin which procured it. The truth is (which should satisfy them) that to the truly baptized▪ or ••eartconsenters to Gods Covenant, Original Sin and all sin is pardoned at to the great eternal pernicious punishment; But not absolutely and perfectly pardoned yet, as to all degrees of punishment: Nor is all the ••• pability ceased.Can they tell us intelligibly how the sin of Unbelief and not-loving God, and other privations can be really put away, without the contrary quality or act? Scotus, with Rada & other Scotists go the same way upon the same false suppositions. And to confute one of them, is to confute all. And so the Papists that say Original Sin is forgiven in Baptism, as to the whole calpability and penalty (as Petavins in Elench. Theriac. Vincent-Lenis (i. e. Fromondi) p. 111. c. 2•.) do grosly err: For 1. It cannot be that the pravity of mans will should not be culpable? 2. And the remaining of that pravity is it self a great punishment of the sin which procured it. The truth is (which should satisfie them) that to the truly baptized▪ or ••eartconsenters to Gods Covenant, Original Sin and all sin is pardoned at to the great eternal pernicious punishment; But not absolutely and perfectly pardoned yet, as to all degrees of punishment: Nor is all the pability ceased.