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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.
The Elect do not so behave themselves under these preparatory workings, but that for their negligence and resistance, they might justly be forsaken of God: But such is Gods special mercy to them, that though 1for a time they may repel or suffocate this exciting and illuminating grace, yet God doth urge them again and again, and ceaseth not to promove them, till he fully subjugate them to his grace, and place them in the state of regenerate sons. Th. 7. All men resist Gods grace, and God might justly forsake all, 2—but doth not—]
- 1Joh. 6. 37. •er. 14. 7. & 32. 39. Phil. 1. 6.
- 2Rom. 9. 18. & 11. 35. Act. 28. 27.
By all this it is evident that they took not man to be forsaken of God in the state of mere original sin, or the corrupt mass, but as a wilful resister and refuser of offered Grace, and oft after the receiving of much preparing grace; and that God forsaketh none till they forsake his grace.
By all this it is evident that they took not man to be forsaken of God in the state of meer original sin, or the corrupt mass, but as a wilful resister and refuser of offered Grace, and oft after the receiving of much preparing grace; and that God forsaketh none till they forsake his grace.