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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.
3.1 Grace making us acceptable they will not have to be the grace of God, by which he loves us and makes •s acceptable to him, according to that, Wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved: but to be grace by way of habit remaining in us, by which we love God, therefore they call charity a grace making us acceptable, as if by reason of its force and merit men were saved of God.
- 13. To deny either Relative or Inherent Grace, is to deny that without which there is no salvation. The necessity of Pardon at least, many of them confess.
4.1 Moreover when they divide grace into sufficient and efficacious grace they say sufficient grace is given to all and every man even without the Church, by which they have a power to will, and they can if they will, believe, and by believing be saved.
4.1 Moreover when they divide grace into sufficient and efficacious grace they say •ufficient grace is given to all and every man even without the Church, by which they have a power to will, and they can if they will, believe, and by believing be saved.
- 14. No doubt but all have so much grace that they may believe and be saved, if they will (sincerely) Because though veil credere be not credere, as Doctor Twiss answers it, yet credere est voluntatis, as Austin answers it. But the Papists, especially the Dominicans •ffirm not, sufficient grace to believe to be given to those that hear not the Gospel: but only sufficient grace to that which tendeth to this further grace.