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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.
C. The prayer of the Wicked is abomination to the Lord.
B. By [wicked] is meant, either one that is yet unregenerate as such, or one that is actually set upon wickedness, progressively, and is not about returning to God. And by [abomination] is meant, either that which God accepteth not so far as to pardon and save him that doth it, though he judge him more prepared for Grace than others; or else that which he totally abhorreth as being no preparation to his Grace. A man that is unregenerate may so far seek mercy in a returning degree yet short of saving Grace, as that it shall not be in vain. Even an Ahab had experience of this; And so had Nineveh and many others: And why else do you still confess a state of preparatory Grace? Is Gods preparatory Grace abominable to him? Doth Christ give abominable Grace? or is preparation to Conversion an abominable thing? 2. But the Text speaketh of a wicked man as wicked: He that goeth on in a wicked life, and thinketh by Sacrifice and Prayers to pacify God, and make him amends, his Sacrifice and Prayers are abominable. But wicked men may have somewhat in them that is better than wickedness: They may have such a belief that God is, and that he is a Rewarder of them that diligently seek him; yea such a Faith in Jesus Christ, as shall move them to that sort of repentance and reformation as that they shall be almost true Christians, and not far from the Kingdom of God. And the wicked man that doth this, doth it not as wicked, but by common Grace. And though it be so far abominable as not to prove him justified, it is not so far abominable as to be all in vain.
B. By [wicked] is meant, either one that is yet unregenerate as such, or one that is actually set upon wickedness, progressively, and is not about returning to God. And by [abomination] is meant, either that which God accepteth not so far as to pardon and save him that doth it, though he judge him more prepared for Grace than others; or else that which he totally abhorreth as being no preparation to his Grace. A man that is unregenerate may so far seek mercy in a returning degree yet short of saving Grace, as that it shall not be in vain. Even an Ahab had experience of this; And so had Nineve and many others: And why else do you still confess a state of preparatory Grace? Is Gods preparatory Grace abominable to him? Doth Christ give abominable Grace? or is preparation to Conversion an abominable thing? 2. But the Text speaketh of a wicked man as wicked: He that goeth on in a wicked life, and thinketh by Sacrifice and Prayers to pacifie God, and make him amends, his Sacrifice and Prayers are abominable. But wicked men may have somewhat in them that is better than wickedness: They may have such a belief that God is, and that he is a Rewarder of them that diligently seek him; yea such a Faith in Jesus Christ, as shall move them to that sort of repentance and reformation as that they shall be almost true Christians, and not far from the Kingdom of God. And the wicked man that doth this, doth it not as wicked, but by common Grace. And though it be so far abominable as not to prove him justified, it is not so far abominable as to be all in vain.