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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.
11. God doth not decree any man's perseverance, let him live never so securely, negligently or viciously: For those that do so are fallen already: It is a contradiction, to persevere in holiness, and to live unholily. But Gods Decree is ever entire, that such a one shall fear danger, fly temptations, live holily in the use of means, and therein persevere unto the end: He never separated these in his Decrees.
11. God doth not decree any man's perseverance, let him live never so securely, negligently or vitiously: For those that do so are faln already: It is a contradiction, to persevere in holiness, and to live unholily. But Gods Decree is ever entire, that such a one shall fear danger, fly temptations, live holily in the use of means, and therein persevere unto the end: He never separated these in his Decrees.
12. Except Hierome truly accuse Jovinian with it, there is not (that I know of) any Father, Christian, or Heretic, that hath written that 1no truly Justified persons fall finally away from Grace and perish, for above a thousand years after Christ: And it's commonly granted that generally they held the contrary: Even Augustine, Prosper and Fulgentius not excepted.
12. Except Hierome truly accuse Jovinian with it, there is not (that I know of) any Father, Christian, or Heretick, that hath written that 1no truly Justifyed persons fall finally away from Grace and perish, for above a thousand years after Christ: And it's commonly granted that generally they held the contrary: Even Augustine, Prosper and Fulgentius not excepted.
- 1Lege Vossi, Histor. Pelag. de Perseverant.