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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.
3. If by predetermining you mean more than predecreeing or prevolition, as if mans will was predetermined, when it was not determined, or determined before it had a being, you speak contradictions. But Gods own will was eternally determined (if we may so say of that which was never undetermined) to give all the grace that he giveth in time, and to cause all the good acts that he causeth, as he causeth them.
XIII. The Co-operation of free-will with the gifts of grace, is in the predestinate, an effect of predestination; and efficiently proceedeth from God making us by the help of grace freely to co-operate; and consequently dependeth not on the sole and innate liberty of the will.
Answ. I think so too.
XIV. We must necessarily distinguish of a twofold help of Grace; one sufficient, by which man may be converted to God, or work piously: The other effectual, by which God effecteth that he be actually converted, and act piously.