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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.
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3. They deny that this Grace is perfect in any in this Life, as without all defect in degree, or totally freeth any man from all Sin: and therefore they deny that any mans will is perfectly and inculpably free from every degree of vice and danger.
4. And as that degree of common Grace which is in the unregenerate, is but such as consisteth with the predominance or Reign of Sin, so that will of every unregenerate man in that pravity, is as a slave to it's own, vicious disposition, and to Error, Objects, and Temptations; being not delivered as to the predominance.
4. And as that degree of common Grace which is in the unregenerate, is but such as consisteth with the predominance or Reign of Sin, so that will of every unregenerate man in that pravity, is as a slave to it's own, vitious disposition, and to Errour, Objects, and Temptations; being not delivered as to the predominance.
5. Yet we believe that common Grace is such, that these men are not utterly void of all good Inclination, and knowledge; and therefore that in Moral Sense, every man can do more good, and less Evil than he doth: And that men perish, because not only they will not (by pravity) do what they have natural strength to do, but also because they will not choose and do what morally they might have chosen and done, as to the wills own power.
5. Yet we believe that common Grace is such, that these men are not utterly void of all good Inclination, and knowledge; and therefore that in Moral Sence, every man can do more good, and less Evil than he doth: And that men perish, because not only they will not (by pravity) do what they have natural strength to do, but also because they will not choose and do what morally they might have chosen and done, as to the wills own power.