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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. God was not obliged to any Reward, but according to the tenor of his Law. Prove that his Law promised Glory or Immutability for one act? 2. Bonum est ex causis integris: one act is but a small pa•• of a mans life. The Promise was to the whole course only. 3. God did reward every act: His acceptance, and the continuance of all •he blessings of that Paradise, and the comfort of his Love, was a gre•• Reward.
§. 20. M. S. If one act of Obedience deserved unchangeable Happiness then God must bestow it. But, &c.]
§. 20. M. S. If one act of Obedience deserved unchangeable Happines• then God must bestow it. But, &c.]
An. I deny the minor: One act deserved it not. No act deserved in Commutative Justice: And no act deserved it of governing Justice, but such as the Law antecedently made it due to.