A26883:1962
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.
§. 3. No creature by resisting God, doth abate or retund his essential Power or Activity, nor make any thing properly difficult to him.
§. 4. All the Elect resist Grace before it overcome and convert them: And all our lives after we resist it too commonly when it exciteth us to duty, and draweth us from sin.
§. 5. He that repenteth not of his Resisting of Gods Spirit and Grace, doth not understand and well repent of his sin.
§. 6. All Resisting is not Overcoming: All Resist grace, but all overcome it not, that is, do not frustrate it as to the due effect.
§. 7. There are several Degrees of yielding to Gods motions and operations, and so several degrees of overcoming. He is fully overcome by it, who yieldeth to it wholly; He overcometh it in some part, who yieldeth to it but in part. And because Gods grace moveth us to more than we ordinarily yield to, therefore we do ordinarily overcome it in too great measure, even when we are happily overcome by it.