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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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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.
350. A Death-Bed, or late Repentance, is then acceptable, and sufficient to pardon, when it is the Heart or Love that is thus turned from the Creature to God habitually; so that if the person did recover, he would live to God: otherwise it is uneffectual; not because too late, but because unsound: But because fear is usually the principle of such mens Repentance, it is much to be suspected, though not despaired of.
350. A Death-Bed, or late Repentance, is then acceptable, and sufficient to pardon, when it is the Heart or Love that is thus turned from the Creature to God habitually; so that if the person did recover, he would live to God: otherwise it is uneffectual; not because too late, but because unsound: But because fear is usually the principle of such mens Repentance, it is much to be suspected, though not dispaired of.