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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 23: More necessary Concessions.
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333. I take Augustine's opinion so far as it is for Perseverance to be a certain Truth, viz. That All the Elect shall certainly persevere, and that the Grace of Perseverance is the consequent of Election, and not Election the consequent of foreseen Perseverance, (unless you mean only that part of Election which determineth of Glorifying, and exclude that which decreeth to give Perseverance.) But the difficulty is about the non-elect. And it is most probable that where God decreeth Perseverance, he decreeth to give Grace suitable thereto; As when he decreeth the Immortality of the Soul, he giveth it a Nature apt for Immortality. And therefore that such have Confirming Grace. But the controversy is, whether all true Grace do so confirm?
333. I take Augustine's opinion so far as it is for Perseverance to be a certain Truth, viz. That All the Elect shall certainly persevere, and that the Grace of Perseverance is the consequent of Election, and not Election the consequent of foreseen Perseverance, (unless you mean only that part of Election which determineth of Glorifying, and exclude that which decreeth to give Perseverance.) But the difficulty is about the non-elect. And it is most probable that where God decreeth Perseverance, he decreeth to give Grace suitable thereto; As when he decreeth the Immortality of the Soul, he giveth it a Nature apt for Immortality. And therefore that such have Confirming Grace. But the controversie is, whether all true Grace do so confirm?
334. That an Argument cannot be fetched for Perseverance from the mere Nature of the Grace received, seemeth plain, by Adam's fall, and probable from the Angels.
334. That an Argument cannot be fetcht for Perseverance from the meer Nature of the Grace received, seemeth plain, by Adam's fall, and probable from the Angels.