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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 25: Degrees of falling, and danger.
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346. The Sin against the Holy Ghost seemeth unpardonable by the Text, though the Papists expound it by [hardly pardonably]. And it is [an obstinate infidelity and rejection of Christ as a Deceiver, upon a settled conceit that he did his Miracles by the power of the Devil, when they are convinced that they were actually done; and so a blasphemous fathering of Gods great attestation upon the Devil, and a rejecting his last Witness to the Truth, which must convince those that ever will be convinced.] But I have wrote a Treatise of this Sin, and so shall pass it by.
346. The Sin against the Holy Ghost seemeth unpardonable by the Text, though the Papists expound it by [hardly pardonably]. And it is [an obstinate insidelity and rejection of Christ as a Deceiver, upon a setled conceit that he did his Miracles by the power of the Devil, when they are convinced that they were actually done; and so a blasphemous fathering of Gods great attestation upon the Devil, and a rejecting his last Witness to the Truth, which must convince those that ever will be convinced.] But I have wrote a Treatise of this Sin, and so shall pass it by.
347. If a true Believer should be supposed to fall quite away from the belief of Christ, it seemeth hard to imagine how he can do it without this blaspheming the Divine attestation of the Spirit, by which before he was brought to believe. And it seemeth that therefore, Heb. 6. & 10. this Apostasy is made the same with the unpardonable blasphemy of the Holy Ghost, which yet proveth not that it ever cometh to pass, but what it would be if it did.
347. If a true Believer should be supposed to fall quite away from the belief of Christ, it seemeth hard to imagine how he can do it without this blaspheming the Divine attestation of the Spirit, by which before he was brought to believe. And it seemeth that therefore, Heb. 6. & 10. this Apostacy is made the same with the unpardonable blasphemy of the Holy Ghost, which yet proveth not that it ever cometh to pass, but what it would be if it did.