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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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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.
4. Gods Decrees do cause no mans sin, (nor his damnation any further than as as supposing sin:) for Dr. Twice himself still professeth, 1. That Reprobation is an Immanent act, and nihil ponit in objecto, putteth nothing at all into the person. 2. And that Reprobation inferreth no necessity of sin or misery, but ⟨p. 57⟩that which is called necessitas consequentiae, and not any necessitas consequentis; and Arminius and all confess that Gods bare foreknowledge causeth or inferreth a necessity consequentiae; which truly is but a Logical necessity in order of argumentation, when one thing is proved by another; and not by Physical necessity in order of causation, as one thing is caused by another.