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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.
2.1 Under the name of the flesh which lusteth against the Spirit, and is to be mortified among other things, they mean the body of man.
- 12. The body is not to be mortified by self-murder; but the corrupt inclinations and actions of the sensitive appetite are to be mortified; and all its motions subjected to holy Reason: And this is called in Scripture the mortifying of the flesh, and our corruption would never be called in Scripture so often [The flesh and the body] if it were not that the fleshly appetite is much of the seat of it, and the pleasing of that appetite and imagination, much of the end (that I say not the whole.)2. The body is not to be mortified by self-murder; but the corrupt inclinations and actions of the sensitive appetite are to be mortifyed; and all its motions subjected to holy Reason: And this is called in Scripture the mortifying of the flesh, and our corruption would never be called in Scripture so often [The flesh and the body] if it were not that the fleshly appetite is much of the seat of it, and the pleasing of that appetite and imagination, much of the end (that I say not the whole.)
3. That all sin is not a transgression of the Law (John defineth it, 1. Jo. 3.4. Gal. 3.10.) nor all transgression of the Law is sin.
4.1 That there is no sin but what is voluntary (which is not only false of concupiscence, habitual and actual which goes before the wills consent, but of other sins also which are done of ignorance or infirmity, for though the actions are voluntary by which they are committed, yet the sin is not.)