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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. › Section 17: Of Love as the end of Faith.
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253. When Faith hath wrought this holy Love in the Soul, it doth as much if not more to keep us from Apostasy than Faith it self. Therefore many unlearned Christians, by the power of holy Love, stand fast, when subtle disputing Doctors may cleave to the world, and fall away.
253. When Faith hath wrought this holy Love in the Soul, it doth as much if not more to keep us from Apostacy than Faith it self. Therefore many unlearned Christians, by the power of holy Love, stand fast, when subtile disputing Doctors may cleave to the world, and fall away.
254. Though it be an ill expression of those School-men that say, Love is the form of every Grace, that which I suppose they mean is true: that love being the final Grace, the rest as they are means to it, or the effects and expressions of it, are what they are partly in that Relation: The means is a means only by its Aptitude to the end; And is never loved (as such) for it self, but for the end: And what the effect hath, it hath from its efficient Cause. And it is true, that no Faith, no Fear, no Obedience, no Praise, no Suffering is further accepted of God, and a part of true Holiness, nor will prove our Salvation, than it participateth of predominant love to God. But this predominant Love is always an evidence of Life.
255. Qu. What if a man should by Faith in Christ be brought to the love of God, and after fall away from Faith in Christ, and yet retain his love to God, would that love save him? Ans. When you can prove that ever there was such a man, I will answer you. Till then such false suppositions are no otherwise to be answered, than by telling you, that if God should permit a man to fall from Christ, that man would lose the Spirit of Christ, and the sight and sense of all Gods Love and Goodness manifested in Christ, and in all the Work of Redemption; And therefore he would lose the love of God.