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A second admonition to Mr. Edward Bagshaw written to call him to repentance for…
A second admonition to Mr. Edward Bagshaw written to call him to repentance for many false doctrines, crimes, and specially fourscore palpable untruths in matter of fact ... : with a confutation of his reasons for separation ... / by Richard Baxter ...
London: printed for Nevill Simmons, 1671
A second Admonition to Mr. Edward Bagshaw written in some hope of c… › Section 56
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.
Sect. 56. E. B. p. 18. His own Free-will hath not the least power to receive the things of God.
R. B. 1. What not sanctified Free-will? 2. What! not a Receiving obediential power? A receiving power is a passive power (as it is strictly taken.) Hath a free-agent less Power to receive Grace, than a marble to receive the engraving of the work-man? Doth no man ever receive Grace? Or do they receive what they cannot receive? Hath a man no more Receptive Power than a block or stone? I know its said [The natural man Receiveth not, &c.] ⟨p. 140⟩that is, Understandeth not, believeth not, and loveth not in sensu Composito: But its never said, that [Our free-will hath not the least power to receive.] But I have said so much of this, and the next point (the badness of nature) to which he giveth not any answer at all, that I wonder that the man thinks that one that is all tongue and no ears or eyes, is fit for credit or humane converse.
R. B. 1. What not sanctified Free-will? 2. What! not a Receiving obediential power? A receiving power is a passive power (as it is strictly taken.) Hath a free-agent less Power to receive Grace, than a marble to receive the engraving of the work-man? Doth no man ever receive Grace? Or do they receive what they cannot receive? Hath a man no more Receptive Power than a block or stone? I know its said [The natural man Receiveth not, &c.] ⟨p. 140⟩that is, Vnderstandeth not, believeth not, and loveth not in sensu Composito: But its never said, that [Our free-will hath not the least power to receive.] But I have said so much of this, and the next point (the badness of nature) to which he giveth not any answer at all, that I wonder that the man thinks that one that is all tongue and no eares or eyes, is fit for credit or humane converse.