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Richard Baxter's Catholic theology plain, pure, peaceable, for pacification of the dogmatical word-warriors who,…Richard Baxter's Catholick theologie plain, pure, peaceable, for pacification of the dogmatical word-warriours who,…
Richard Baxter's Catholic theology plain, pure, peaceable, for pacification of the dogmatical word-warriors who, 1. by contending about things unrevealed or not understood, 2. and by taking verbal differences for real,Richard Baxter's Catholick theologie plain, pure, peaceable, for pacification of the dogmatical word-warriours who, 1. by contending about things unrevealed or not understood, 2. and by taking verbal differences for real,
London: printed by Robert White for Nevill Simmons, 1675
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.
Fulg. l. 1. de Verit. praedest. cap. 6. To good men God giveth what good they have, and keepeth it: But to the wicked and ungodly, God neither ever could prepare or give evil works, which they should damnably serve: nor did he ever put into them evil wills by which they should culpably will things unjust: but he prepared for them the punishment of Hell, that they might feel revenging justice in endless fire. An evil will is not of God: And therefore the just Judge doth punish it in men, because the good Creator findeth not in it the order of his Creation. And perseverance and contumacy in sin and pride, because it is not of Gods giving, is condemned by God revenging. Et l. 1. ad Monim. c. 26. He will punish in the wicked, that they are bad, which he gave not, nor did he predestinate them to any iniquity: and that they willed unjustly was none of his gift. And because the persevering iniquity of an evil will, ought not to remain ⟨p. 122⟩unpunished, he predestinated such to destruction, because he prepared just punishment for them—Observe that God predestinated wicked and ungodly men, to just punishment, not to any unju•• work: to the penalty, not to the fault: to the punishment, n•• to the transgression: to the destruction which the anger of a just judge requiteth sinners with; not to that destruction (or death) by which the iniquity of sinners provoketh Gods wrath against them. The Apostle calls them Vessels of wrath, not Vessels of sin. Cap. 27. The wicked are not predestinated to the first death of the soul, but to the second death they are:—That which followeth the sentence of a just Judge; not that which preceded in the evil concupiscence of the sinner. Ibid. c. 23. It beseemeth believers to confess that the good and just God, fore-knew indeed that men would sin, (for all things to come are known to him. For they were not future, if they were not in his fore-knowledge:) But not that he predestinated any to sin. For if he predestinated man to any sin, he would not punish man for sin. For Gods predestination prepareth for men, either the godly remission of their sins, or the just punishment of them. God therefore could never predestinate man to that, which he had resolved both to forbid by his precept, and to wash away by his mercy, and punish by his justice.