A26883:1670
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.
illuminatio per Christum, gustus doni coelestis, participatio Spiritus Sancti, gustus item boni Dei verbi, ac virtutum futuri saeculi; & cap. 10. Sanctificatio quae est per sanguinem Testamenti, & Spiritus gratiae. Et 2 Pet. 2. Comparantur sui, quae ubi lota fuit, rursus in caeno volutatur. Quomodo haec illis sine omni peccatorum remissione contingere possint, non immerito quaeri potest in hac causa.]
279. But Alvarez telleth us (l. 10. de Auxil. Disp. 104. pag. 419. §. 1.) of some who hold that there is a Grace of Confirmation distinguished only by the degree of the same helps, which none can fall away from; and that a confirmed state is never lost, is ordinarily held by the Dominicans, though they agree not what this confirming Grace is: And many of the Jesuits confess such a state of Confirmation, making men impeccable as to Mortal sin. So that some are in statu and not only in decreto, secured from Apostasy, most confess.
279. But Alvarez telleth us (l. 10. de Auxil. Disp. 104. pag. 419. §. 1.) of some who hold that there is a Grace of Confirmation distinguished only by the degree of the same helps, which none can fall away from; and that a confirmed state is never lost, is ordinarily held by the Dominicans, though they agree not what this confirming Grace is: And many of the Jesuites confess such a state of Confirmation, making men impeccable as to Mortal sin. So that some are in statu and not only in decreto, secured from Apostacy, most confess.
280. And Vossius ubi supra copiously laboureth to prove that the Ancients held three degrees of true Grace: One which men might fall from easily, and oft did, though if they had dyed in it they had been saved: Another which men may lose as to the act at least, but scarcely as to all seeds and habits. And another state next to perfection, which none shall lose. I refer the Reader to his Collections, though I do not clearly perceive by them, that many had such distinctions of Believers: But the weak and the strong or confirmed all distinguish.