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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.
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.
XIX. Effectual aid and a Power of dissenting, are compossible in the same subject, and consist in the same will.
Answ. True: And remember that a true Power is that quâ verè possumus; and not that faculty which could do this or that if God will predetermine it, and otherwise cannot; no more than the Sun can shine without him. When God withholdeth the Influx necessary to action, such a faculty is no true power as to that action in that State.