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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.
152. But saith Rada, it is not common permission, but also a withdrawing of effectual helps against sin. Answ. 1. God did not so by Adam at first. 2. But are sufficient or necessary helps also withdrawn, as well as effectual? If so, then Adam was as much necessitated to sin by God, as he was to dye ⟨p. 26⟩by Gods withdrawing his Vital influx or sustentation, and it would have been as naturally Impossible for him not to sin, as to live without God. But if not so, then while Necessary Grace, called sufficient, is continued, the withdrawing of any other inferreth not a necessity of sinning. But indeed it is an unproved and improbable fiction, that God withdrew from Adam any Grace which he had given him, till Adam cast it away.
It is therefore no good Illation, Deus permittit aliquem peccare: ergo peccat: unless by permitting you mean withholding necessary help; which is more than proper permission.
153. And it must be remembered that God is far from a total permission or non-impedition of sin: He always hindereth it so far as to forbid it, to threaten damnation to affright men from it, to promise salvation and all felicity to draw men from it: He tells men of the vanity of all which would allure them to it; And his daily mercies, and corrections should withhold men from it. Only by doing no more, nor effectually changing or restraining sinners, but leaving them to their own choice under all these moral restraining means, he permitteth sin.
153. And it must be remembred that God is far from a total permission or non-impedition of sin: He alwayes hindereth it so far as to forbid it, to threaten damnation to affright men from it, to promise salvation and all felicity to draw men from it: He tells men of the vanity of all which would allure them to it; And his daily mercies, and corrections should withhold men from it. Only by doing no more, nor effectually changing or restraining sinners, but leaving them to their own choice under all these moral restraining means, he permitteth sin.