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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 Three and 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 confused slander and deceit.
Protestants hold, 1. That the Faith not rooted, prevalent and saving, is frequently lost, such as you call sides informis.
2. That even sincere Faith may be lost, as to the Act for some little time, that is, suspended in a deliquium, as Peters and theirs, Luk. 24. that said, We trusted this had been he, &c.
3. That many lose to the Death some degree of their habitual Faith.
4. But they differ in the rest, just as you do among your selves, Dominicans and Jesuits. 1. Some think that no one (at Age at least) in a State of such Faith as at present would have saved him, doth ever totally lose it. 2. Some think that many have but such loseable Grace as Adam had. 1. As being not Elect to Salvation, and therefore not in Gods decree of Preservation and Perseverance, 2. As having a Faith not Rooted and Confirmed: And that these may fall from a justified State: But that, 1. The Elect. 2. Nor the Confirmed, never fall away. This was Austins Judgment, and his followers, of which see Vossii Theses. And is that Jesuit honest that feigneth this proper to the Protestants, where the Controversy is the same among themselves?