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The 1654 Prose Letters Letter 6, cont. (p.16) |
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opposition and arguing against the former error) was too much overvalued, and ad- mitted into too near degrees of fellowship with Grace; those times admitted a doctrine and form of reconciliation, which though for reverence to the time, both the Dominicans, and Jesuits at this day in their great quarrell about Grace and Free will would yet seem to maintaine, yet indiffe- rent and dispassioned men of that Church see there is no possibility in it, and therefore accuse it of absurdity and almost of heresie. I think it falls out thus also in the matter of the soul: for Christian Religion presu- ming a soul, and intending principally her happiness in the life to come, hath been content to accept any way which hath been obtruded; how this soul is begun in us. Hence it is that whole Christian Churches arest themselves upon propagation from pa- rents; and other whole Christian Churches allow onely infusion from God. In both which opinions there appear such infirmi- ties as it is time to look for a better: for [CW: who-] |
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