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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.
§. 25. M. S. Arg. 4. From the nature of an obediental act: which includeth the approving of the whole Law.
An. 1. Approving the things that are excellent, is made consistent with wickedness, Rom. 2. But I will suppose you to mean a full consent to the Covenant of Innocency. But 2. How prove you that such consent was the whole condition of life, and that it might not be fallen from? and that Adam never did consent before his Fall? and yet not sin▪ 3. All the godly approve of Gods Law, and consent to it, and love it, and yet merit not as keepers of it; for they break it, Rom. 7. 4. Yea Covenant-keeping to the last, as well as Covenant-consent the first moment, is now to us the condition of immutable Glory.
§. 26. M. S. Adam would not obey at first, but suspend while he looked about the World, to see if there were any good sufficient for him below God: Therefore he sinned not then.