A26923:672
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.
§. 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.
§. 7. Nature and common Grace may cause a man to go as far in Love and Religion, as those whom we call the highest Hypocrites, or almost-Christians may do (which our practical Preachers do frequently tell the People at large in Books and Sermons.
§. 8. Such may have a common sort of Faith in Christ (even formerly to the working of Miracles), and of Repentance, and Reformation, and of good Desires, and love to goodness and good Men; yea, to God himself.