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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 68
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Sect. 68. E. B. Do not discourse about Free-will at large, when you should only handle free-will in the things of God.
R. B. This implieth another Untruth,1 that I did not speak of Free-will in the things of God. To forbear the breaking of some of Gods Laws, and to do somewhat commanded are the things of God: I show that ⟨p. 156⟩men have some free-will to forbear Murder, Adultery, Theft, Treason, Perjury, Persecution, yea, and writing falsehoods. If not, why do you cry out of Persecution, Silencing, Atheism, when men have not the least free-will to forbear them! Why do you refuse the imputation of your own Untruths, if you have not the least free-will to forbear them? Your words were [Now we see one firm reason to deny the least allowance of free-will in the things of God, since those that hold it in any degree—]▪ The Synod of Dort taught other Doctrine: And so doth Mr. Fenner in his Book of wilful Impenitence. And in the second Sheet of Mr. Dods sayings, when one had been restrained from swearing at Dinner by his presence contrary to his use, he took occasion to show, that men can do more than they do, and can forbear more evil than they forbear.
R. B. This implyeth another Untruth,1 that I did not speak of Free-will in the things of God. To forbear the breaking of some of Gods Laws, and to do somewhat commanded are the things of God: I shew that