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The Protestant religion truly stated and justified by the late Reverend Mr. Richard BaxterThe Protestant religion truely stated and justified by the late Reverend Mr. Richard Baxter
The Protestant religion truly stated and justified by the late Reverend Mr. Richard Baxter ; prepared for the press some time before his death ; whereunto is added, by way of preface, some account of the learned author, by Mr. Daniel Williams and Mr. Matthew Sylvester.The Protestant religion truely stated and justified by the late Reverend Mr. Richard Baxter ; prepared for the press some time before his death ; whereunto is added, by way of preface, some account of the learned author, by Mr. Danel Williams and Mr. Matthew Sylvester.
London: printed for John Salusbury, 1692
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. Of Free-Will, p. 87. he tells us, he denies that mans Will in his unregenerate state is free from vicious inclination, or from the conduct of an erring Intellect, or from the Bias of Sensuality, &c. 2. He denies that the Will thus vitiated, will ever deliver it self without Gods Spirit and Grace, it being rather inclined to grow worse. 3 As that degree of common Grace, which is in the unregenerate, is but such as consisteth with the predominant Reign of Sin; so the Will of every unregenerate man in that pravity, is as a Slave to its own vicious dispositions, error, and temptations. Who can say more against Free-Will? Obj. But he affirms the natural freedom of the Will. Answ. He doth so, and explains it, p. 84, 85, 86, 91. and it is no more than that a Sinner is a man still, tho' he be depraved; and he is a liberal, and not a forced Agent in what he acteth.
1. Of Free-Will, p. 87. he tells us, he denies that mans Will in his unregenerate state is free from vitious inclination, or from the conduct of an erring Intellect, or from the Biass of Sensuality, &c. 2. He denies that the Will thus vitiated, will ever deliver it self without Gods Spirit and Grace, it being rather inclined to grow worse. 3 As that degree of common Grace, which is in the unregenerate, is but such as consisteth with the predominant Reign of Sin; so the Will of every unregenerate man in that pravity, is as a Slave to its own vitious dispositions, errour, and temptations. Who can say more against Free-Will? Obj. But he affirms the natural freedom of the Will. Answ. He doth so, and explains it, p. 84, 85, 86, 91. and it is no more than that a Sinner is a man still, tho' he be depraved; and he is a liberal, and not a forced Agent in what he acteth.
Obj. But he saith, p. 88. That by common Grace a man may do more good and less evil than he doth. Answ. It's true, he saith so. But, p. 85. he distinguisheth between ⟨image 4⟩common and special Grace, and denies that we can do that by common Grace, which is proper to special Grace: and saith, men have but just so much, and no more moral Liberty, and power, as they have of Gods Grace to relieve their vitiated Wills. See p. 91.