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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. Of the first I am most fully resolved: Of the second there is much doubtfulness. If I include it, I know you will ask me, whether it be impossible for God so to determine the Will, as to make the contrary act impossible, without taking away its Liberty? And whether Christ could commit every sin? or else was not free? And whether Heaven take away all Liberty, if it make sin impossible? But briefly I answer you, that the Libertas Viatoris differeth from that in Heaven; and that Ours still supposeth a possibility of the Contrary, but Theirs doth not.
B. But if it be their Liberty to be past a posse peccare, why should it not be ours to come as near it as may be? especially when we have the fore-tastes and first-fruits of Heaven on Earth, and Grace is the seed of Glory.
B. But if it be their Liberty to be past a posse peccare, why should it not be ours to come as near it as may be? especially when we have the fore-tasts and first-fuits of Heaven on Earth, and Grace is the seed of Glory.
A. It is our Liberty to be as far from sin as may be: But this is another kind of Liberty, and not to be confounded with that which is a mere power of doing or not doing.
A. It is our Liberty to be as far from sin as may be: But this is another kind of Liberty, and not to be confounded with that which is a meer power of doing or not doing.