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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.
§. 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.
§. 21. It is not a mere Power that God giveth men to Repent and believe: But a Power accompanied with many Gracious help• and means to determine it aright (of which before.)
§. 21. It is not a meer Power that God giveth men to Repent and believe: But a Power accompanied with many Gracious help• and means to determine it aright (of which before.)
§. 22. He that will not use such Power and means doth thereby forfeit ⟨p. 46⟩further grace*: However God doth not always take the forfeiture, and will not of his elect to their destruction, but doth pardon them.