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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.
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.
2. To the same sense our English Divines commonly tell us how, ordinarily God prepareth, men for conversion before he convert them; and how far persons unconverted may go in common grace: He that readeth Mr. Hooker of New England, Mr. John Rogers his doctrine of faith, Mr. Bolton's instructions for comfort—Mr. Mead's Almost a Christian, and abundance such, will see that they were of the same mind.
2. To the same sence our English Divines commonly tell us how, ordinarily God prepareth, men for conversion before he convert them; and how far persons unconverted may go in common grace: He that readeth Mr. Hooker of New England, Mr. John Rogers his doctrine of faith, Mr. Boltons instructions for comfort—Mr. Meads Almost a Christian, and abundance such, will see that they were of the same mind.
3. Hence it is plain, that those persons that resisted this further work of grace, and forsook God first, had true Power to have done otherwise; and could have gone further than they did, without any other grace than they had: (Though quoad necessitatem sequentem vel consequentiae, it might be inferred even from Gods prescience, that it could not be.)