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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.
VI. There is no Law, nor ever was made by God, of his giving the actual helps of preventing grace, to them that do all that is in them, by the sole faculty of nature: nor hath Christ merited or would have any such Law.
Answ. True: For he giveth some common grace to all men antecedently, without any condition on their part: And though he give to those that use their common grace to the utmost (or near it) sufficient encouragement to go on and hope that such endeavour shall not be in vain as to the obtaining of peculiar grace, yet de nomine vel definitione, Whether this encouragement shall be called a Law, or a Promise, or neither, we contend not.
VII. God by his helping grace floweth into free-will by premoving it that it may co-operate, and also truly-efficiently together with the same free-will causeth its pious operation.
Answ. It's true: But all adjuvant grace produceth not the second effect, which floweth from both Causes, (of which before and after.)