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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.
§. 21. M. S. Merit, it is a suitableness of the work to the wages. ••• that please God are under his good pleasure; the fruit of which must be ••• enjoying of his Spirits infinite assistance. This Adam might have claimed •• Justice, and gloried: for one act deserveth a Reward.]
§. 21. M. S. Merit, it is a fuitableness of the work to the wages. ••• that please God are under his good pleasure; the fruit of which must be ••• enjoying of his Spirits infinite assistance. This Adam might have claimed •• Justice, and gloried: for one act deserveth a Reward.]
An. This is sufficiently answered; 1. Wages strictly taken is M•••• given by a Proprietary commutatively: It's blasphemy to say that God can owe any Creature such, for he can receive nothing but his own. The word when used to us, is improperly taken: But praemium a Reward we have; but no work deserveth that, but by the ordinate Justice of the Law. Some few Papists talk of a dignity ex proportione oper••, but the Scotists and the wisest of them deny any but, 1. Ex congruitate. 2. Ex pacto. Your suitableness may signify either, 1. A congruity ad fines regiminis; or else ad praemium qua promissum: And thus it's true▪ But it's not proved that any one act was such. 2. Or it may •ignifie a suitableness in proportion ex simplici dignitate operis, obliging the Governor antecedently to his Law. 2. Or obliging God as Proprietor to compensation; And so it is untrue, that Merit is a suitableness of the work to the wages, here.
An. This is sufficiently answered; 1. Wages strictly taken is M•••• given by a Proprietary commutatively: It's blasphemy to say that God can owe any Creature such, for he can receive nothing but his own. The word when used to us, is improperly taken: But praemium a Reward we have; but no work deserveth that, but by the ordinate Justice of the Law. Some few Papists talk of a dignity ex proportione oper, but the Scotists and the wisest of them deny any but, 1. Ex congruitate. 2. Ex pacto. Your suitableness may signifie either, 1. A congruity ad fines regiminis; or else ad praemium qua promissum: And thus it's true But it's not proved that any one act was such. 2. Or it may ignifie a suitableness in proportion ex simplici dignitate operis, obliging the Governor antecedently to his Law. 2. Or obliging God as Proprietor to compensation; And so it is untrue, that Merit is a suitableness of the work to the wages, here.