A27015:1153
The safe religion, or, Three disputations for the reformed catholic religion against popery proving…The safe religion, or, Three disputations for the reformed catholike religion against popery proving…
The safe religion, or, Three disputations for the reformed catholic religion against popery proving that popery is against the Holy Scriptures, the unity of the catholic church, the consent of the ancient doctors, the plainest reason, and common judgment of sense it self / by Richard Baxter.The safe religion, or, Three disputations for the reformed catholike religion against popery proving that popery is against the Holy Scriptures, the unity of the catholike church, the consent of the antient doctors, the plainest reason, and common judgment of sense it self / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed by Abraham Miller for Thomas Underhill, 1657
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.
11. Where first the Papists do egregiously err in expounding the word [grace] for when the holy Spirit, speaking of these effects of Divine grace, saith we are justifie• by grace, and saved by grace, &c. By grace they understand not the free favour of God in Christ, but the gift of grace inherent in us: as if the Scripture did not say we are called, justified, and saved by the same grace we are elected and redeemed by.
11. Where first the Papists do egregiously erre in expounding the word [grace] for when the holy Spirit, speaking of these effects of Divine grace, saith we are justifie• by grace, and saved by grace, &c. By grace they understand not the free favour of God in Christ, but the gift of grace inherent in us: as if the Scripture did not say we are called, justified, and saved by the same grace we are elected and redeemed by.
- 11. Gods love or favour is our Radical Grace, from which flow both Relative effects in pardon, justification, adoption, and Physical in our Renovation: all which are called also Grace.1. Gods love or favor is our Radicall Grace, from which flow both Relative effects in pardon, justification, adoption, and Physical in our Renovation: all which are called also Grace.
2. And then when they divide the grace of God into eternal grace, which they call the everlasting love of God: and temporary such as the benefit of vocation and justification are: again they divide this temporary grace into grace freely given, and grace making acceptable, both which they will have to be a quality inherent in us, as if either all grace which they call temporary, did inhere in us, or that which doth inhere in us were not all freely given.