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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.
12.1 They deny also that all the works of the unregenerate are sins: or that the unregenerate sin when they do the works that are commanded.
12.1 They deny also that all the works of the unregerate are sins: or that the unregenerate sin when they do the works that are commanded.
- 112. The matter of their works is oft good: but because their end and manner is always wrong, therefore they sin in all: for bonum est ex causis integris.12. The matter of their works is oft good: but because their end and manner is alwayes wrong, therefore they sin in all: for bonum est ex causis integris.
13.1 They say that before all grace a man hath freewill not only to works natural and moral, but also to works of piety, and supernatural.
13.1 They say that before all grace a man hath freewill not onely to works natural and moral, but also to works of piety, and supernatural.
- 113. The will is free and not free in several senses. 1. It is not free from Gods Government. 2. Nor from its natural inclination to good in general; and therefore cannot will evil as evil. For these were but slavery. 3. Nor is it free from the moral force of a dark and erring judgment. 4. Nor from temptations. 5. Nor from its own vicious disposition, till grace free it. But its free, 1. From any natural determination to evil, or to unknown good in particular. 2. And free from coaction or violence. 3. And from a physical efficient immediate exterior Determiner, in ordinary natural, or sinful actions. 4. And its free from sinful habits in that measure as it is sanctified.