A27015:943
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. 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.)
4.1 That there is no sin but what is voluntary (which is not onely 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.)
- 14. Sins are called voluntary, either because they are in the Will, or from the will. In the first sense the vicious habits of the will are voluntary in the second, the elicit and imperate acts. Also they are voluntary, directly, and formally, as are the wills own acts and habits; or participative, as are the acts and habits of all the imperate faculties. And there is nothing sin but what is voluntary in one of these senses: nor any further then voluntary.4. Sins are called voluntary, either because they are in the Will, or from the will. In the first sence the vicious habits of the will are voluntary in the second, the ellicite and imperate acts. Also they are voluntary, directly, and formally, as are the wills owne acts and habits; or participative, as are the acts and habites of all the imperate faculties. And there is nothing sin but what is voluntary in one of these senses: nor any further then voluntary.