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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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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.
348. Repentance which cometh from fear alone, without the love of God and Holiness, is no sign of justification, nor consistent with it: nor is such attrition sufficient to forgiveness: For the heart is not changed to God without love.
349. Though where there is more love to the Creature than to God, there is no true Sanctification (speaking of rational and not of sensual love); Yet where there is more fear of God than love to God, there may be Grace, though weak, so be it God be loved above the Creature.