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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.
§. 13. Therefore of a man that is no otherwise unable to Love God (e. g.) but only because (or in that) directly or indirectly, he will not, that is, is Dispositively, Actually and Habitually Unwilling; it is more proper and intelligible to say that he will not, than that he cannot: Though we may also say He cannot, when we mean but that he will not: But the most explicatory words are best.
§. 14. No man-shall be able so far to accuse God and excuse himself justly at last, as to say, I was truly willing to have Christ and Life as offered me, but I could not: or I was truly willing to leave my sins and worldly vanities, and to live a holy life to God, but I could not: Yea Augustine and Twice say more, that no man can truly say, [I would believe but cannot] (which yet I think needeth some limiting explication.)
§. 14. No man-shall be able so far to accuse God and excuse himself justly at last, as to say, I was truly willing to have Christ and Life as offered me, but I could not: or I was truly willing to leave my sins and wor••ly vanities, and to live a holy life to God, but I could not: Yea Augustine and Twisse say more, that no man can truly say, [I would believe but cannot] (which yet I think needeth some limiting explication.)
§. 15. Obj. But though all men Can have Christ (or faith) if they will, yet the unregenerate are unable to be willing.