A26883:1683
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.
289. The other degree of Mortality, the said Divines take to be some heinous Act of Sin like David's or Peter's, which destroyeth not the habit, but is so great, that the person, though he lose not his fundamental ⟨p. 104⟩Right, yet is put into an immediate ineptitude and incapacity of Heaven, and his Right so suspended, as that he cannot have possession 1till that obex be removed by true repentance.
- 1That Grace and Mortal Sin oppon•ntar privative sic•t l•x & t•n•brae, &c. •id. Careres Sum. Theol. 2. •. pag 23, &c.
290. If you ask them whether that man shall go to Heaven or Hell if he so die; they tell you that it is not to be supposed; for God hath decreed that he shall not so die, but shall repent (which Austin will say of all the Elect) and sometime he half dreamed of Purgatory for some such.)
291. The true reason why such a heinous sin must be actually Repented of before full pardon and capacity for Heaven, and the true note to know what sins must have such actual Repentance (and so are thus f Mortal) is this; there are some Sins so easily known to be Sins, and so notoriously calling the Conscience to Repent, that to lye in them unrepented of long (when the sudden violent temptation and passion's over, and a man hath opportunity to act according to his settled habits) will not consist with the truth of such a Habit of love and holiness, and of hatred of Si: So that though necessitate praecepti the Act of Repentance be as necessary as the Habit, yet necessitate medii ad salutem it is the Habit that is absolutely necessary in se, and the act so far as the absence of it cannot stand with such a habit. This is my judgment of this difficult case: He that can open it better, deserveth all our thanks.