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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.
§. 19. God hath appointed or commanded to all men, the use of certain duties and means for their Recovery by faith and repentance unto God: And there is no man that is not obliged to use such means; nor any man that is to use them in despair of success: The very command being some signification of Gods will, that obedience shall not be in vain. Whether the name of an Implicit Promise be apt for that command, I leave to those that have a mind to contend about names.
§. 19. God hath appointed or commanded to all men, the use of certain duties and means for their Recovery by faith and repentance unto God: And there is no man that is not obliged to use such means; nor any man that is to use them in desp•ir of success: The very command being some signification of Gods will, that obedience shall not be in vain. Whether the name of an Implicite Promise be apt for that command, I leave to those that have a mind to contend about names.
§. 20. Though a mere Indifferent faculty be (as Dr. Twice saith) rather to be called Nature than Grace; yet it is Grace 1. Which giveth a gracious object to that faculty, though thereby it be still but an undetermined Power. 2. And it is more Grace which taketh off some vicious Ill dispositions of the soul; and giveth it some more Disposition to believe, though but so much as common grace doth give.
§. 20. Though a meer Indifferent faculty be (as Dr. Twisse saith) rather to be called Nature than Grace; yet it is Grace 1. Which giveth a gracious object to that faculty, though thereby it be still but an undetermined Power. 2. And it is more Grace which taketh off some vicious Illdispositions of the soul; and giveth it some more Disposition to believe, though but so much as common grace doth give.