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A sermon of judgement preached at Pauls before the Honourable Lord Major and aldermen…A sermon of iudgement preached at Pauls before the Honourable Lord Maior and aldermen…
A sermon of judgement preached at Pauls before the Honourable Lord Major and aldermen of the city of London, Dec. 17, 1654 and now enlarged / Rich. Baxter.A sermon of iudgement preached at Pauls before the Honourable Lord Maior and aldermen of the city of London, Dec. 17, 1654 and now enlarged / Rich. Baxter.
London: printed by R.W. for Nevil Simmons, 1655
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A SERMON Of Judgement, Preached at Pauls before the Honourable Lord… › Part 9
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Answ. Your will was not free from Gods Rule and Government; nor was it free from its natural inclination to Good in general; for either of these were more properly slavery. 3. Nor was it free from the Influence of a dark understanding. 4. Nor free ⟨p. 142⟩from its own contracted vicious Inclination. 5. Nor freed from the Temptations of the flesh, the world and the Devil.
Answ. Your will was not free from Gods Rule and Government; nor was it free from its natural inclination to Good in general; for either of these were more properly slavery. 3. Nor was it free from the Influence of a dark understanding. 4. Nor free ⟨p. 142⟩from its own contracted vitious Inclination. 5. Nor freed from the Temptations of the flesh, the world and the Devil.
But it was 1. Free from any natural Determination to evil, or to any thing that was doubtful. 2. And free from the Coaction or Violence of any. 3. And free from an irresistible Determination of any exterior cause, at least, ordinarily. So that naturally, as men, you have the power or faculty of determining your own wills, and by your wills▪ of Ruling your inferior Faculties in a great measure; yea of Ruling the senses and the Fantasy it self, which doth so much to dispose of our Understanding. And if your wills which are naturally free, are yet so habitually vicious, that they incline you to do evil, that is not an excuse, but an Aggravation of your sin. But of this more, under the next.
But it was 1. Free from any natural Determination to evil, or to any thing that was doubtful. 2. And free from the Coaction or Violence of any. 3. And free from an irresistible Determination of any exterior cause, at least, ordinarily. So that naturally, as men, you have the power or faculty of determining your own wills, and by your wills▪ of Ruling your inferiour Faculties in a great measure; yea of Ruling the senses and the Phantasie it self, which doth so much to dispose of our Understanding. And if your wills which are naturally free, are yet so habitually vitious, that they encline you to do evil, that is not an excuse, but an Aggravation of your sin. But of this more, under the next.