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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.
14.1 That there is in mans free will, not only a possibility or passive power, but ⟨p. 394⟩also an active power to spiritual works.
14.1 That there is in mans free will, not onely a possibility or passive power, but ⟨p. 394⟩also an active power to spiritural works.
- 114. No question but the will is potentia activa naturalis, or hath such an active power: which is employed in spirituals when it is inclined by a habit thereto; but till then will not act spiritually: not because the natural faculty is absent, but because the inclination without which it will not act, is absent.14. No question but the will is potentia activa naturalis, or hath such an active power: which is imployed in spirituals when it is inclined by a habit thereto; but till then will not act spiritually: not because the natural faculty is absent, but because the inclination without which it will not act, is absent.
115. That the unregenerate can prepare and dispose themselves to justification.
- 115. No doubt but under the common grace of Christ, an unregenerate man may do that which he shall be more disposed to conversion by then also he would have been: as our practical Divines▪ all teach, and we are fain daily to preach it to our people: or else we shall make but ill work with them.