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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
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IV. That without or before faith no good work is done, but lies and sins: l. 3, & 4. c. 1. p. 223. no nor without true Godliness, p. 261. & passim. To think that Infidels and ungodly have any true virtue, is dotage. c. 17. V. The first sin had no necessity, being mere sin, and no punishment, and so easily avoidable and wholly voluntary: Other sins are also punishments, and so partly involuntary and unavoidable and necessary: Though a sinner may forbear one sin by another. cap. 22. VI. A rational Creature could not be made of God sinless without true Love to God, or at least a faculty most sufficient to love him and cleave to him. De statu nat. purr. l. 1. c. 17. p. 323, 324. nor can God withdraw that grace of Love from the innocent. c. 13. ⟨p. 91⟩VII. The grace of Adam, and of Christ, Adjutorium sine quo non, & Quo, do thus differ, that the first serveth the will, and is determined by it: The second (Adjutorium medicinal) giveth▪ the ipsum velle to the unwilling, which else it could not have. The Grat. Chr. Sal. Li. 2. c. 4. and is more than Lex, scientia, revelatio, remissio peccatorum, gratia sufficiens, habitualis, & per congruitatem efficax. c. 5. Also 1. The Adjutorium sine quo non giveth not Merit to the will, but it meriteth it self: But the Adjutorium Quo giveth us the ipsum opus & meritum. 2. The former is meritum humanum; the second meritum divinum, as given of God. 3. To the first Life would be merces meriti: To the second it is a free gift; Reward and Gift are repugnant. Angels merited life. 4. By the first and free will Angels persevered: but we cannot but by the second. 5. The first (fine quo non) was given them that were to be differenced by free-will: The second to them that are to be differenced by grace. c. 6, 7, 8. One is adjutorium possibilitatis, the other actionis. c. 9. VIII. That since the fall no good can be in or of man, but by Gods gift, and is not laudable in any but God. c. 23. Man hath no part of the praise. This grace is, ever effectual, determining, rapeth the will so that it is scarce perceived to act: It useth the will as an instrument, which way God will: It is insuperable, irresistible, not merely potential: It is never uneffectual, but in all that have it infallibly effecteth. c. 24, 25. IX. There is no grace of Christ but this (quo): None now fine quo non, or ad posse. c. 27. That ceased with innocency. X.
IV. That without or before faith no good work is done, but lies and sins: l. 3, & 4. c. 1. p. 223. no nor without true Godliness, p. 261. & passim. To think that Infidels and ungodly have any true virtue, is dotage. c. 17. V. The first sin had no necessity, being meer sin, and no punishment, and so easily avoidable and wholly voluntary: Other sins are also punishments, and so partly involuntary and unavoidable and necessary: Though a sinner may forbear one sin by another. cap. 22. VI. A rational Creature could not be made of God sinless without true Love to God, or at least a faculty most sufficient to love him and cleave to him. De statu nat. pur. l. 1. c. 17. p. 323, 324. nor can God withdraw that grace of Love from the innocent. c. 13.