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Catholic communion doubly defended by Dr. Owens, vindicator, and Richard Baxter and the state…Catholick communion doubly defended by Dr. Owens, vindicator, and Richard Baxter and the state…
Catholic communion doubly defended by Dr. Owens, vindicator, and Richard Baxter and the state of that communion opened, and the questions discussed, whether there be any displeasure at sin, or repentance for it in Heaven : with a parallel of the case of using a faulty translation of Scripture, and a faulty liturgy.Catholick communion doubly defended by Dr. Owens, vindicator, and Richard Baxter and the state of that communion opened, and the questions discussed, whether there be any displeasure at sin, or repentance for it in Heaven : with a parallel of the case of using a faulty translation of Scripture, and a faulty lyturgy.
London: printed for Thomas Parkhurst, 1684
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.
That God or Spirits at least have some Act of will about evil as such, is commonly agreed: Else all the sin and evil in the world would come to pass, without any Act of God, or good Spirits in Heaven about it: Sure they that for Predetermination have written so many Volumes, (and one against me) are not of that mind. They say this is to feign God, and all in Heaven asleep, or having nothing to do with Earth: I have my self proved indeed (with others) that God hath no Volition or Complacency of Evil as such, but a Displicence I have proved.
2. If God have no Displicence as to sin, then there is no effectual impediment to it, but all the world would be drowned in wickedness: For the Creature would presently run into evil. But sin is restrained—
If any in excess of subtlety say, that Nolitions are not in God, but Volitions of the Good, are instead of Nolitions of Evil, this is bold, and at least the language unfit, and reductively these Volitions are Nolitions of their Contraries. And however none of this can be feigned of Souls.
If any in excess of subtilty say, that Nolitions are not in God, but Volitions of the Good, are instead of Nolitions of Evil, this is bold, and at least the language unfit, and reductively these Volitions are Nolitions of their Contraries. And however none of this can be feigned of Souls.