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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
THE Second Part. OF GODS GOVERNMENT, AND MORAL WORKS. › A PREMONITION.
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.
They of the other Opinion say, That the Gospel-Covenant shewe•• Gods Nature as well as the first Law: That God had not been unjust i• deed, if he had permitted him to fall into great Sin, and so to peri•• who committed the least: for he so permitted Adam to commit the first that was before innocent: But the Justice of God bound him not so it do: nor would have damned a Lover of God, for a small Sin, no more than now: That we must not feign a Law which we cannot prove▪ That God changeth not his holy Nature, and therefore not that Law, which is the expression of it: That Christ died for all Sin, and all needs pardon; but that proveth not that the least deserved death, much less Hell; but that by Christ's Death the deserved punishment must be remitted; that all, even Infants, are guilty of mortal Sin in Adam: The Death is the wages of that Sin which brought it, but not of the least: That Adam's Law was not severer than that by Moses, which saith, D• this and live, and yet condemned not men for smaller sins; That God proclaimeth pardon of some Sin, in the very Law of Nature as from his Nature, Exod. 34. and the Second Commandment, That Nature teacheth all the World to believe it: That God said not to Adam, [•• the day that thou thinkest a vain thought,] but [That thou eatest,] &c. That mortal Sin is pardonable by Christ which else could not by the first Law: but God could otherwise have pardoned a vain thought, if he would: That no Text of Scripture saith, that every Sin deserveth Hell, nor is threatened with Death.]
They of the other Opinion say, That the Gospel-Covenant shewe•• Gods Nature as well as the first Law: That God had not been unjust i• deed, if he had permitted him to fall into great Sin, and so to peri•• who committed the least: for he so permitted Adam to commit the first that was before innocent: But the Justice of God bound him not so it do: nor would have damned a Lover of God, for a small Sin, no more than now: That we must not feign a Law which we cannot prove That God changeth not his holy Nature, and therefore not that Law, which is the expression of it: That Christ died for all Sin, and all needs pardon; but that proveth not that the least deserved death, much less Hell; but that by Christ's Death the deserved punishment must be remitted; that all, even Infants, are guilty of mortal Sin in Adam: The Death is the wages of that Sin which brought it, but not of the least: That Adam's Law was not severer than that by Moses, which saith, D this and live, and yet condemned not men for smaller sins; That God proclaimeth pardon of some Sin, in the very Law of Nature as from his Nature,