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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
§. 2. Mans sinful soul resisteth Gods gracious operations, all these ways. 1. It is Passively become undisposed to Reception: And thus he is said to have a hard heart of stone, and a seared conscience, and to be dead and past feeling, Eph. 4. 18, 19. & 2. 1, 2. 2. It doth not do what it can do morally to receive grace, that is, it doth not Conari or suscitate it self to be willing of it. 3. Yea, it doth Positively resist by Action, and is unwilling of Gods gracious operations: And this is twofold, 1. By willing the contrary, and prosecuting carnal interest, over-loving the pleasures of the flesh, and so turning away from the motions of grace, 2. And therefore by an enmity to that grace and work, which would †convert him, and take him off his chosen Idols.
§. 2. Mans sinful soul resisteth Gods gracious operations, all these wayes. 1. It is Passively become undisposed to Reception: And thus he is said to have a hard heart of stone, and a seared conscience, and to be dead and past feeling, Eph. 4. 18, 19. & 2. 1, 2. 2. It doth not do what it can do morally to receive grace, that is, it doth not Conari or suscitate it self to be willing of it. 3. Yea, it doth Positively resist by Action, and is unwilling of Gods gracious operations: And this is twofold, 1. By willing the contrary, and prosecuting carnal interest, over-loving the pleasures of the flesh, and so turning away from the motions of grace, 2. And therefore by an enmity to that grace and work, which would †convert him, and take him off his chosen Idols.
- †Bradwardine li. 1. c. 1. cor. 8. p. 5. proveth that Gods will is universaliter efficax nec impedibilis, frustrabilis aut defectibilis: which we grant as to his will as it is efficient and not merely final and complacite: But yet the Schoolmen that say, he is not Omnivolens, give reason for it.