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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.
An. 1. All Obedience formally respecteth Gods Sovereignty. 2. No doubt the Trees were symbolical, and the remembrance of them should yet teach us to prefer living to God, before a selfish, distrustful, needless knowledge; the increase of which increaseth sorrow. 3. But that Adam was commanded to eat of the Tree of Life, I cannot prove, unless the general obligation to choose the best was as a Command.
An. 1. All Obedience formally respecteth Gods Soveraignty. 2. No doubt the Trees were symbolical, and the remembrance of them should yet teach us to prefer living to God, before a selfish, disturstful, needless knowledge; the increase of which increaseth sorrow. 3. But that Adam was commanded to eat of the Tree of Life, I cannot prove, unless the general obligation to choose the best was as a Command.
§. 8. M. S. To be naturally happy is proper to God: therefore Adam was to be led to it freely by a Covenant.
An. To be happy necessarily, and independently, and primarily, is proper to God: But you can never prove it any contradiction or impossible for God to make a Creature naturally happy; nor that there are not such.