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The true and only way of concord of all the Christian churches the desirableness…
The true and only way of concord of all the Christian churches the desirableness of it, and the detection of false dividing terms / opened by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for John Hancock, 1680
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.
19. That Adam had not help or strength sufficient, or necessary power to have forborne his first sin.
19. That Adam had not help or strength sufcient, or necessary power to have forborn his first sin.
20. That man was made only to be an inhabitant of earth, as Angels are of heaven; and is not capable of an higher habitation.
VIII. Of sin, Original and subsequent.
1. That God is as much the Cause of all sin, as he is of darkness and such other privations: and that he made Adam sin; or that he irresistibly predetermineth every ones will to every forbidden act which it doth.
2. That the Devil irresistibly necessitated Adam to sin, and so some superior cause did the Devils.