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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.
6. His asserting that Angels and Adam had sufficient Grace, and Free-will, by which the Angels did, and Adam could have persevered in Innocency and never sinned: And yet that since the fall, no ungodly man hath such help and free-will to any one better act than he doth, nor the holiest person to any better than he doth; but the best Saint is less able to do one better act, than Adam was to keep all the Law.
7. And so his consequent, that it is properly impossible for any man in the World, good or bad, to do any better than he doth.
8. That all they love God sincerely amore amicitia who love God and Justice propter se as amiable in himself, though they love their filthiest sins so much better, and all their fleshly worldly interest, as that they have but an uneffectual wish that they could leave them.
9. That we must not say, that Christ giveth men either a Power to do better than they do, nor yet that Grace of Fear which they have, (as being below him); And yet must say that he giveth multitudes this uneffectually sincere love, which never saveth them.