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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.
SECT. XVIII. Whether the first Grace, and the New and Soft Heart be Promised and Given Absolutely, or on any Condition on our part; And so of faith it self?
Answ. §. 1. BY the first Grace is meant, either simply the first, or the first special renewing Grace on the soul, proper to them that shall be Justified. Of the first Grace simply there is no Condition; for it is given Universally to all, (viz. a Reprieval, a Law of Grace, a Redeemer, &c.) And after this there is much common personal mercy given conditionally▪ and much absolutely, to all or some.*
- *And as to the first moving inward Grace, see how copiously the Jesuit Ruiz (as Vasquez and others) proveth that it hath no initium in us, no not an occasion or disposition, much less merit, for which it is given: And he reasoneth from the Names, Creation, Generation by the seed of God, resuscitation and Gods being found of them that sought him not, and from the Cause of the difference between man and man. De pradest. Tr. 3. disp. 18. •, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, &c. p. 227, 228, &c. Even Medina 12. p. 596. is so hesitant as to say] Esse probabilem sententiam Doctorum quod facienti quod in se est ex facultate naturae Deus▪ ex sua misericordia nunquam denegat gratiam. Sed dico quod probabilius est & magis consentaneum sanctis patri•us, praeclpu• Augustino, non esse Legem infallibilem quod homini patori facienti quod in se est, ex facultate natura, continub conferatur gratia. Nam si esser Lex infallibilis certè initium & bona pars justificationis esset à nobis, &c.] Thus the Papists herein differ as much as the Protestants among themselves.