A26923:278
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
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.
§. 1. Though [Greek or Hebrew] in Scripture signifieth one whose existent Pravity rendereth him disapproved, loathed and rejected of God, yet we here continue the word Reprobation as ordinarily used, for the Decree of rejecting men for ever, ⟨p. 41⟩that we may be understood; not refusing any •itter name.
§. 1. THough 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 in Scripture signifieth one whose existent Pravity rendereth him disapproved, loathed and rejected of God, yet we here continue the word Reprobation as ordinarily used, for the Decree of rejecting men for ever, ⟨p. 41⟩that we may be understood; not refusing any •itter name.
§. 2. God's essential Will as such is not called Reprobation nor a Decree of Damnation, as distinct from other Volitions: Therefore the distinguishing denomination must be fetched from the effects or objects which it hath relation to.
§. 2. God's essential Will as such is not called Reprobation nor a Decree of Damnation, as distinct from other Volitions: Therefore the distinguishing denomination must be fetcht from the effects or objects which it hath relation to.
§. 3. Therefore where there is no effect or object of God's Will, there is no such will to be named and asserted: But so much as God effecteth in or towards Mans damnation, so much he must be said to will.