A26883:1807
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 Third Part: OF GOD'S GRACIOUS OPERATIONS ON MANS SOUL: AND THE… › Preface: The Preface.
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And as we must thus agree that natural Liberty consisteth in a self-determining power peculiar to Rational free agents; so we are all agreed except the Pelagians, that mans nature is vitiated by Original sin, and therefore that the will which is naturally free from force and necessitation (except from God, who never necessitateth it to evil,) is yet in servitude to our own concupiscence, and is not free either from the enticements of sense, or the erroneous conduct of a blinded mind, or from its own vicious habits, (averseness to God and holy things, and proneness to things sensual, and seeming good:) And therefore that this Holy, or Moral Liberty of the will, must have the Medicinal Grace of Christ to heal it; (of which next▪)
IV. And as to the Article of Effectual Grace, it is agreed on (and cannot 1with sobriety be gainsaid without subverting the main doctrine of the Scriptures) that whereas besides the Preparatory or Promeriting Grace of Christs own performance, there is yet a three-fold Grace necessary for the application or conveyance of the Benefits purchased by Christ; in the measure hereafter mentioned, all this is common.
IV. And as to the Article of Effectual Grace, it is agreed on (and cannot 1with sobriety be gainsayed without subverting the main doctrine of the Scriptures) that whereas besides the Preparatory or Promeriting Grace of Christs own performance, there is yet a three-fold Grace necessary for the application or conveyance of the Benefits purchased by Christ; in the measure hereafter mentioned, all this is common.
- 1I speak not of Grace as it is Gods favour, but the effect: •e gratia data, non de gratia dant•.