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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.
A. *Though you say that God decreeth to give men more power than they use, yet you add, that none of that power will ever be well used, unless he fore-decree it; For you say that God absolutely willeth or decreeth every good Act, as well as the Power. And so no such Act followeth any Power, where God decreeth it not: And what good doth that Power do them.
- *The Jesuits themselves as well as the Dominicans deny as much as a possibility or power to unbaptized Infants (of being saved); And in their case are for as absolute arbitrary Reprobation as the highest, not only Calvinist but Antinomian, vid. Ruiz. de praedes. Tr. 3. disp. 15. sect. 1. p. 202, &c. And this upon the irrational Doctrine, that for want of baptism the Children of the holiest persons shall be condemned, though the Parents did their best to procure it, and so there is no will or sin the Cause: And yet godly persons have Merits to spare for souls in Purgatory, and none for their own Children.The Jesuites themselves as well as the Dominicans deny as much as a possibility or power to unbaptized Infants (of being saved); And in their case are for as absolute arbitrary Reprobation as the highest, not only Calvinist but Antinomian, vid. Ruiz. de praedes. Tr. 3. disp. 15. sect. 1. p. 202, &c. And this upon the irrational Doctrine, that for want of baptism the Children of the holiest persons shall be condemned, though the Parents did their best to procure it, and so there is no will or sin the Cause: And yet godly persons have Merits to spare for souls in Purgatory, and none for their own Children.
B. Still you anticipate those Controversies which belong to the point of Grace. But I answer, 1. You must answer this for your selves first, for it as much concerneth you as us. For you teach that what ever Power God giveth men, it will never be exercised, unless he fore-know that it will be so: Yea, unless upon fore-knowledge of mans due cooperation with God, it be decreed. For you say that God fore-knoweth all the Acts of Grace and Power that will be exercised; yea, and decreeth them on the said fore-sight, as your Doctrine de scientia media inferreth.