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,…

But it is true power, where nothing of absolute necessity sine quo non esse potest is wanting, which our Divines do commonly confess that Adam had, and that all men good and bad have to more good than they do. Therefore I find not that you are in that disagreed. And Dr. Twice, as I told you, oft and vehemently professeth, Vindic. Grat. de Amis. Grat. Cont. Bellar. pag. (Vol. Minor) 230. c. 2. & 232. that man hath no necessity of sinning ex decreto, but logical consequentiae: But if it were true that we wanted that Grace which is absolutely necessary to avoid sin, it must needs follow that such are under an absolute present necessity consequentis also of sinning; as much as of dying, when God ceaseth to continue life. And if he mean that the Decree necessitateth not sin, but the denying of necessary Grace doth, he should have said so. Andr. Rivet Disput. 7. de Grat. Univers. p. 113. saith, [Sed non quemadmodum Pomificii & alii qui eorum sententiam vel sequuntur vel interpolant, nobis imponunt, ita ut plane negemus sufficientis Gratiae phrasin posse usurpari, aut dicamus nullam esse sufficientem ullo modo, quae efficax non sit, vel nullam esse efficacem quae ad conversionem & salutem non sit efficax—Id tantum dicimus, non dari omnibus talem Gratiam sufficientem, quae ita moveat omnium hominum voluntates, ut sit in potestate electionis motioni aut obtemperare, aut res•agari: adeoque nullum esse qui per talem gratiam non possit ad salutem pervenire, Deumque id velle omnibus & intendere.] You see that he will own no more, but the denial of a universal sufficient Grace for Salvation, intended of God, to all men. And you your selves confess, 1. That God intendeth not Salvation for all men, unless conditionally, if they believe and repent, which from eternity he knew before he made them, that they would not. 2. And that all men have not sufficient Grace to Salvation, no nor to believe, but ⟨p. 133⟩only to make them better, and bring them nearer it, and prepare them for it; (which some call Grace mediately sufficient to Salvation; but that's an improper Speech, as long as for want of their Obedience, they never attain to much that is absolutely necessary.) For my part I doubt not to assert, 1. That no man in the World hath Grace sufficient for Salvation, that is, Glorification, an hour before he dieth: For he cannot be saved without more;

But it is true power, where nothing of absolute necessity sine quo non esse potest is wanting, which our Divines do commonly confess that Adam had, and that all men good and bad have to more good than they do. Therefore I find not that you are in that disagreed. And Dr. Twisse, as I told you, oft and vehemently professeth, Vindic. Grat. de Amis. Grat. Cont. Bellar. pag. (Vol. Minor) 230. c. 2. & 232. that man hath no necessity of sinning ex decreto, but logical consequentiae: But if it were true that we wanted that Grace which is absolutely necessary to avoid sin, it must needs follow that such are under an absolute present necessity consequentis also of sinning; as much as of dying, when God ceaseth to continue life. And if he mean that the Decree necessitateth not sin, but the denying of necessary Grace doth, he should have said so. Andr. Rivet Disput. 7. de Grat. Univers. p. 113. saith, [Sed non quemadmodum Pomificii & alii qui eorum sententiam vel sequuntur vel interpolant, nobis imponunt, ita ut plane negemus sufficientis Gratiae phrasin posse usurpari, aut dicamus nullam esse sufficientem ullo modo, quae efficax non sit, vel nullam esse efficacem quae ad conversionem & salutem non sit efficax—Id tantum dicimus, non dari omnibus talem Gratiam sufficientem, quae ita moveat omnium hominum voluntates, ut sit in potestate electionis motioni aut obtemperare, aut resagari: adeoque nullum esse qui per talem gratiam non possit ad salutem pervenire, Deumque id velle omnibus & intendere.] You see that he will own no more, but the denial of a universal sufficient Grace for Salvation, intended of God, to all men. And you your selves confess, 1. That God intendeth not Salvation for all men, unless conditionally, if they believe and repent, which from eternity he knew before he made them, that they would not. 2. And that all men have not sufficient Grace to Salvation, no nor to believe, but