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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.
I. Free-will in lapsed nature cannot without the help of grace do a moral work, which by co-operation of the supernatural End shall be truly good, and a work of Virtue; so as that by the doer it be referred to God beloved simply above all, as to the ultimate natural End.
Answ. It is granted, (and more) that though all natural men have one sort of Grace given them, yet, I think, this cannot be done without special saving grace.
II. Man by the sole strength of nature cannot assent to all supernatural mysteries propounded and explained to him, as revealed of God, or because revealed of God so as the formal reason of his belief is Divine revelation.
Answ. It's true: He must have commoner grace to believe them dogmatically and uneffectually; and special saving grace to believe them practically and savingly.