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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.
The fifth Crimination.
C. They deny absolute Reprobation at least, and say that God reprobateth no men, but upon fore-sight of sin; And so that he hath no Decree that men shall sin, nor that he will permit them to sin, nor that they shall do the act in particular which is sin: As if God had not decreed the hardening of Pharaohs heart, the sin of Sihon, of Rehoboam, of the Jews in killing Christ, &c.
B. 1. I told you before, Reprobation is a word that signifieth several acts: You dare not but grant them, that God decreeth or willeth to damn no man but for sin, and as a Sinner: And this is the same thing that they mean. 2. If by Reprobation you mean Gods Decree to give them no Faith or Repentance. 1. You must prove that God hath such a Decree or Will, for a mere negation, where not-decreeing or not-willing to give them Grace, will do as much. 2. All Christians must needs confess that God made a Covenant of Grace with fallen Mankind in Adam and Noah; And that no man is now under the mere Obligations of the Law and Covenant of Innocency, which saith [Be perfect and live, sin and die for ever]: And that there is some common mercy extended to all the World, which obligeth them to repent in order to Salvation. He subverteth Scripture, and all experience, that denieth this. Therefore all must grant, that God denieth no special Grace to any, but the abusers of this common Grace. And he decreeth to do but what he doth.