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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.
6. Others would have it to be a very small sin, and less then any venial sin; and therefore needeth no repentance; nor is punished with pain of sense, but only with pain of loss.
6. Others would have it to be a very small sin, and less then any venial sin; and therefore needeth no repentance; nor is punished with pain of sense, but onely with pain of loss.
7. Others deny original sin to be properly sin, or that any thing is found in infants that properly hath the nature of sin.
18. That we are not by nature dead in sin but sick: nor do they acknowledge in us an impotency to spiritual good, but a difficulty: nor that Freewill to spiritual good is wholly taken from us, but hindered and tied.
18. That we are not by nature dead in sin but sick: nor do they acknowledge in us an impotency to spiritual good, but a difficulty: nor that Freewill to spiritual good is wholly taken from us, but hindred and tyed.
- 18. Metaphors are not usually the fittest terms to state controversies in. We have vicious habits and the absence of Rectifying habits: call this what you will. Free will is either Physical (and that all men have as they are men) or moral; which is 1. To be free from a legal restraint from good (and this all have) or to be free from vicious Habits: and this only the sanctified have; and that but in part.