A26883:1977
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.
1. It is not [I will give thee faith if thou wilt believe, or I will make thee willing if thou be willing of the same thing.] But it is, [1. If by resisting common preparing grace, thou so harden •hy heart, or increase the privation of receptive aptitude in thy self, as that the same degree of grace, means, help, impress, will not change thee, which otherwise would have done it, and will change another not so self-hardened, thy gracelessness and destruction (both absolutely and as compared to others that are converted,) is imputable only to thy self.
1. It is not [I will give thee faith if thou wilt believe, or I will make thee willing if thou be willing of the same thing.] But it is, [1. If by resisting common preparing grace, thou so harden •hy heart, or increase the privation of receptive aptitude in thy self, as that the same degree of grace, means, help, impress, will not change thee, which otherwise would have done it, and will change another not so self-hardened, thy gracelesness and destruction (both absolutely and as compared to others that are converted,) is imputable only to thy self.
2. And if thou be unwilling to use the Means as thou art able, to hear, read, or meditate on that which should affect thee, and unwilling (Privatively) to hear and receive the inward motions of my Spirit, which should convince and turn thee) and wilt not either by previous Cogitation, or immediate conatus and suscitation of thy Intellect to Think, and of the will to its act, actively concur to receive my gracious motions and influx; thy gracelessness (absolutely and comparatively) is imputable, not to me, but to thy self.
2. And if thou be unwilling to use the Means as thou art able, to hear, read, or meditate on that which should affect thee, and unwilling (Privatively) to hear and receive the inward motions of my Spirit, which should convince and turn thee) and wilt not either by previous Cogitation, or immediate conatus and suscitation of thy Intellect to Think, and of the will to its act, actively concurr to receive my gracious motions and influx; thy gracelesness (absolutely and comparatively) is imputable, not to me, but to thy self.