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An end of doctrinal controversies which have lately troubled the churches
An end of doctrinal controversies which have lately troubled the churches by reconciling explication without much disputing. Written by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for John Salusbury, 1691
Chapter 26: Of Confirmation, Perseverance, and Danger of falling away.
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§. 2. Q. I. Whether all Christ's Grace given us, be such as is never lost?
Ans. No: except Jansenius and his Followers, I know of no Christians that ever affirm it; and he doth it on this false supposition, That the common Grace which worketh only preparatorily by fear, is not the Grace of Christ, but a grace of other Providence, and only Love is the grace of Christ. But it is injurious to Christ, who is the Lord, and Light, and Saviour of the World, and God's Administrator-general, into whose Hands all Things and Power is given, to say, That since the Fall there is any Grace in the World that is not his Grace; and that our preparatory grace, and all that's common, ⟨p. 302⟩is aliunde, some other way. He that readeth Joh. 15. Matth. 13. Heb. 6, and 10. may see the contrary.
Ans. No: except Iansenius and his Followers, I know of no Christians that ever affirm it; and he doth it on this false supposition, That the common Grace which worketh only preparatorily by fear, is not the Grace of Christ, but a grace of other Providence, and only Love is the grace of Christ. But it is injurious to Christ, who is the Lord, and Light, and Saviour of the World, and God's Administrator-general, into whose Hands all Things and Power is given, to say, That since the Fall there is any Grace in the World that is not his Grace; and that our preparatory grace, and all that's common, ⟨p. 302⟩is aliunde, some other way. He that readeth Ioh. 15. Matth. 13.