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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.
The will hath such various sorts of Liberty, and the word [Free-will] is so ambiguous, that it is a shame, and irksome to read a pretended Teacher, state a case thus indistinctly, Whether we have Free-will or power to choose good and refuse evil: He is no man that hath no such Free-will and power. And no man hath all sorts of Free-will and power. Nay, as Liberty is opposed to Necessity▪ every man is necessitated to will Good as Good, and nill Evil as Evil, and can do no otherwise: And whenever he willeth Evil, it is sub ratione bon•, mistaking it for good: And who-ever nillleth good, doth it falsely, sub ratione malt. The will is free from Constraint to Sin: God will not so constrain it: Men, Devils, Objects, cannot. He that had read but their Pennattus and Gibi•uf only, ⟨p. 87⟩would see what a shame it is thus confusedly to talk for or against Free-will.
But that which Protestants deny, is this.
1. They deny that mans will in his unregenerate State, is free from a Vicious Inclination, or from the Conduct of an Erring Intellect, or from the Bias and Temptation of Sensuality, or vitiated Senses and Imagination; or from the Temptations of Satan and the World.
1. They deny that mans will in his unregenerate State, is free from a Vitious Inclination, or from the Conduct of an Erring Intellect, or from the Byass and Temptation of Sensuality, or vitiated Senses and Imagination; or from the Temptations of Satan and the World.