A26883:1665
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.
But Ambrose is of his Disciple (Augustine's) mind: The words are, Quis audeat accusare quos electos divino cernis judicio? Nunquid Deus Pater ipse qui contulit, potest dona sua rescindere, & quos adoption suscepit, eos a paterni affectus gratia relegare. But 1. There Ambrose expressly speaketh of the Elect only. 2. And if he had not, such words as these are usually spoken by the Fathers, who assert falling away; meaning that God will not reverse or rescind his Grace; if you cast it not away: As Prosper saith, God forsaketh none that do not first forsake him.
But Ambrose is of his Disciple (Augustine's) mind: The words are, Quis audeat accusare quos electos divino cernis judicio? Nunquid Deus Pater ipse qui contulit, potest dona sua rescindere, & quos adoptione suscepit, eos a paterni affectus gratia relegare. But 1. There Ambrose expresly speaketh of the Elect only. 2. And if he had not, such words as these are usualy spoken by the Fathers, who assert falling away; meaning that God will not reverse or rescind his Grace; if you cast it not away: As Prosper saith, God forsaketh none that do not first forsake him.
If any man would see more of Augustine's judgment, the many Sentences cited by me in my Tract. Of Perseverance, pag. 5, 6. 7. and all those cited by Vossius Histor. Pelag. li. 5. pag. 559, 560, 561, &c. may easily put him past all doubt. See also VOSSIUS, ibid. pag. 563, 564. citing more of PROSPER to the same sense.
That all the Fathers before Augustine were for uncertainty of Salvation, and falling away (de facto) of some that were in a state of true Grace and Justification, in which had they died they had been saved, this great Historian throughly versed in the Fathers, ibid. pag. 565, 566, 567. & pluribus sequent. showeth. For brevity, if you doubt, turn to these cited places, Irenaeus, li. 4. cap. 72. Justin. Martyr. Dial. cum Tryphon. pag. 206, 207. Clemen Alex. Strom. li. 2. pag. 162, 166. Basil. Homil. in