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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.
Answ. True, because it is not called properly effectual, unless either 1. Because it effecteth, 2. Or as it cometh from an absolute decree of effecting, 3. Or is of such a nature and degree that it cannot but effect. And in all these cases it is true.
But such Grace may be eventually uneffectual, which had a sufficiency ex parte sui to effect.
XVIII. The gift of perseverance, as such, and the efficacy of it, dependeth not, no not as on a Condition sine qua non, on the co-operation ⟨p. 74⟩of our free-will, but on the absolute decree of God, effecting mans perseverance.
Answ. This needeth no other explication or observation, but as aforesaid. Only that the Jus ad gratiam quâ ad finem perseveremus, is given on condition, in the Gospel, from how absolute a decree soever it proceed.