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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
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§. 2. That there is such a sufficient Grace not always effectual to mans act, is before proved by Adams Case. And that no man hath such now for any means or duty in order to his recovery, as Adam had to stand when he fell, is not to be asserted or received. And that no prepared soul hath such sufficient Grace to believe, that yet believeth not, is a thing that is past our reach to know.
§. 2. That there is such a sufficient Grace not alwayes effectual to mans act, is before proved by Adams Case. And that no man hath such now for any means or duty in order to his recovery, as Adam had to stand when he fell, is not to be asserted or received. And that no prepared soul hath such sufficient Grace to believe, that yet believeth not, is a thing that is past our reach to know.
§. 3. This sufficient Grace consisteth in a Power to the act: when the Indisposition of the natural power, is so far altered, or repressed, as that by the means and helps vouchsafed by God, the act is Morally possible to be done. For he that truly can do it, all things considered, is well said to have such necessary grace.
§. 4. But God of his bounty usually giveth men more than such a mere moral possibility, by many additional helps and urgencies to the act, which I mentioned before.
§. 4. But God of his bounty usually giveth men more than such a meer moral possibility, by many additional helps and urgencies to the act, which I mentioned before.