A26923:671
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.
§. 5. Grace healeth the Will of this Enmity and vicious perverseness, so far as it prevaileth; which is, 1. common Grace enableth it to common good, and prepareth it for better. 2. Special Grace causeth it actually and habitually to will and love ⟨p. 174⟩special Good; that is, God as God, and the Creature for God, and Holiness as his Image. 3. Perfecter Grace bringeth up the Will to perfecter holy Acts and Habits.
§. 5. Grace healeth the Will of this Enmity and vitious perverseness, so far as it prevaileth; which is, 1. common Grace enableth it to common good, and prepareth it for better. 2. Special Grace causeth it actually and habitually to will and love ⟨p. 174⟩special Good; that is, God as God, and the Creature for God, and Holiness as his Image. 3. Perfecter Grace bringeth up the Will to perfecter holy Acts and Habits.
§. 6. Nature it self is not in lapsed man, divested of all moral or Divine Principles, Abilities, and Inclinations: In the Intellect there are common Notices of a Deity; that is, That there is one God who is infinitely powerful, wise, and good: And in the Will there are some Inclinations still to good as good, and therefore to God as far as he is truly conceived of as good; and so far as that conception is not conquered by a cross Conception of some Enmity: And so of other Good.
§. 6. Nature it self is not in lapsed man, divested of all moral or Divine Principles, Abilities, and Inclinations: In the Intellect there are commen Notices of a Deity; that is, That there is one God who is infinitely powerful, wise, and good: And in the Will there are some Inclinations still to good as good, and therefore to God as far as he is truly conceived of as good; and so far as that conception is not conquered by a cross Conception of some Enmity: And so of other Good.