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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 Twentieth 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.
Ans. Still mere Confusion. Protestants distinguish, 1. Impossibility as natural or Moral; 2. Of Grace as perfect or Imperfect, and as determinately Operative, or only Assisting and not Determining.
Ans. Still meer Confusion. Protestants distinguish, 1. Impossibility as natural or Moral; 2. Of Grace as perfect or Imperfect, and as determitately Operative, or only Assisting and not Determining.
And they hold, 1. That no Duty is Impossible, (or the performing of no Commandment,) by mere Physical Impossibility: The reason is, because God commandeth no Physical Impossibles: Such as before named, to speak without a Tongue, to see without Light or Object, to know things not knowable or revealed, to read without any Teaching or Learning, &c.
And they hold, 1. That no Duty is Impossible, (or the performing of no Commandment,) by meer Physical Impossibility: The reason is, because God commandeth no Physical Impossibles: Such as before named, to speak without a Tongue, to see without Light or Object, to know things not knowable or revealed, to read without any Teaching or Learning, &c.
If a man indeed disable himself, as put out his Eyes that he may not read, or cut out his Tongue that he may not Preach; the disabling act is viciously aggravated, from all the good to which he disabled himself, as if it still had been his Duty: But we cannot say that God still commandeth him when Blind to Read, or when Dumb to Speak, &c. Indeed God changeth ⟨p. 90⟩not his Law; but recipitur ad modum recipientis: The man hath changed his Capacity, and is now no Subject capable of such an Obligation or Command; tho' he be capable of punishment for disabling himself, and Non-performance: Sin is no further Sin than it is Voluntary, by the wills Omission or Act, immediately or mediately.