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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
Protestant Religion Truly Stated, and Justified, &c. › The Nineteenth accused Point.
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.
3. Political Freedom is, when no Law of God or Man obligeth him to any Evil, but all to good.
Protestants hold, 1. That Physical Liberty and Power, is common to man, as man. That is, that he wants not natural faculties to choose aright, but a right Inclination: And that he sinneth not for want of such faculties, but for want of their right disposition and action.
Prothestants hold, 1. That Physical Liberty and Power, is common to man, as man. That is, that he wants not natural faculties to choose aright, but a right Inclination: And that he sinneth not for want of such faculties, but for want of their right disposition and action.
2. That all men have just so much, and no more Moral Liberty and power, as they ⟨p. 85⟩have of Gods Grace, to Relieve their vitiated wills and dispositions, and to help them in the act. No man is freed from vicious Inclinations, further than Gods Grace freeth him, which is much more where there is special Grace and strong, than where there is but common Grace or weak. And that the Thraldom or Impotency of the Vicious, is but the disease of their wills, and aggravation of their Sin: e. g. Where the Drunkard or Fornicator saith, I cannot forbear my Sin: He is so much the worse and more unexcuseable.
2. That all men have just so much, and no more Moral Liberty and power, as they ⟨p. 85⟩have of Gods Grace, to Relieve their vitiated wills and dispositions, and to help them in the act. No man is freed from vitious Inclinations, further than Gods Grace freeth him, which is much more where there is special Grace and strong, than where there is but common Grace or weak. And that the Thraldom or Impotency of the Vitious, is but the disease of their wills, and aggravation of their Sin: e. g. Where the Drunkard or Fornicator saith, I cannot forbear my Sin: He is so much the worse and more unexcuseable.