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The defence of the nonconformists plea for peace, or, An account of the matter…
The defence of the nonconformists plea for peace, or, An account of the matter of their nonconformity against Mr. J. Cheney's answer called The conforming nonconformist, and The nonconforming conformist : to which is added the second part in answer to Mr. Cheney's Five undertakings / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for Benjamin Alsop, 1680
A DEFENCE OF THE NON-CONFORMIST'S Plea for Peace, AGAINST Mr. J. CH… › Chapter 18
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So that their judgment is, that it is only Conditio sine qua non, dispositiva, moralis (improperly called dispositiva,) and not of the effecting, but the reception of grace. A man that doth use God's Ordinance, being in the way where God doth give his grace, and performeth the receptive Condition: Yet none of them deny a Moral Objective Causality on the Considering Adult.
And Brianson in 4. q. 1. fol. 6. 1. doc. concludeth Sacramenta non sunt Causa effectiva gratiae, sed selum per modum meriti; per ea datur gratia citing Ricardus, Scotus, Aureolus, Fr. Perusius, &c. against Thomas and Alexand. herein.
And 4. q. 9. Concl. 1. fol. 152. he saith [Baptismus indiget fide, (quae est dispositio & fundamentum omnium sacramentorum) vel in se, ut in adultis; vel in alio, ut in parvulis, pro quibus sunt ⟨p. 51⟩Fide-jussores Paternus & Materna.] And if so, what undoubted certainty is there of thousands whose God-Fathers themselves have no true Faith.
And, Quod ficte recipientes Baptismum non habent gratiam Baptismi, dicunt Scholastici. vide Brianson, in 4. q. 4. Doct. 1. Fol. 34.