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Gods goodness vindicated for the help of such (especially in melancholy) as are tempted…
Gods goodness vindicated for the help of such (especially in melancholy) as are tempted to deny it, and think him cruel, because of the present and future misery of mankind, with respect to the doctrine of reprobation and damnation / by Richard Baxter ... ; published and prefaced by a friend at whose desire it was written, and to whom it was committed.
London: printed for N. Simmons, 1671
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1. It is false doctrine to affirm that God condemneth the greater part of his Intellectual Creatures (as I have showed) though he condemn never so many of this ungodly world.
1. It is false doctrine to affirm that God condemneth the greater part of his Intectual Creatures (as I have shewed) though he condemn never so many of this ungodly world.
2. It is not true that God decreeth to condemn any man but for sin (for sin, I say, as the cause of his damnation.)
3. God decreeth to condemn none at age (which ⟨p. 56⟩I add but to exclude foolish cavils) for Adam's sin only; nor for any other sin only that is not conjoined with an obstinate final impenitency, and rejecting offered mercy, and neglecting means appointed for their salvation.
3. God decreeth to condemn none at age (which ⟨p. 56⟩I add but to exclude foolish cavils) for Adam's sin only; nor for any other sin only that is not conjoyned with an obstinate final impenitencie, and rejecting offered mercy, and neglecting means appointed for their salvation.