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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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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.
335. Some *to avoid this, deny Adam to have been Holy, and suppose him only Innocent, and Neutral, and capable of Holiness (worse than those Papists †who feign his Holiness to be a supernatural addition to his natural state, thereby preparing men to believe that man was not made Naturally with an Immortal Soul, for Immortal happiness). But, 1. If Adam had an immediate Moral disposition to love God as God, and acted this, he was Holy: If he had not, it must needs be a Privation in him, and not a mere Negation: For a rational creature must needs be naturally obliged to love his Creator; yea, this is the first and summary Law of Nature to him: Therefore not to do it must needs be Sin, and the sum of all Sin: Therefore Adam thus is made a great Sinner ab origine before his fall. 2. If Adam loved not God in his weakest degree of recovering Grace, he was unsanctified: But if he did (as certainly he did) then it is not like that in his least degree of his recovering Grace, he was Holier than in Innocency (though he might stand on surer grounds). 3. And this opinion maketh unholiness of Nature to be no part of Original Sin: Because it would be no Privation, but a Negation: For our Nature in Infancy is not obliged to have that holiness which it never had and lost in Adam. And so Original Sin is almost all denied, and an unholy heart is made as innocent therein. 4. We are renewed according to the Image of him that created us, in wisdom, righteousness, and true holiness, Col. 3. 10