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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. This is before confuted: He could not in that Integrity, and after such divine Revelation, be unresolved one hour whether he must first love and obey his Maker, without sin.
§. 27. God cannot freely give eternal life to a Creature without Reward for doing, because the reasonable Creature was made for the Glory of Justice.
An. 1. You may say, that God will not to man, but not that he cannot, nor that he doth not to any Angel. For man was not made only for the Glory of Justice, but of Power, and Love, or Goodness also. 2. It's certain, that God as a free Benefactor giveth many good things freely, and •• as a Reward for doing: As 1. He so freely made all things good in the Creation, and gave man all his antecedent good: He so gave Ad•• his primitive Holiness, and Helps, and Paradise, and all the Creature•. 2. He so gave Christ to the World, without desert: and so far pardoned the first sin, as that cometh to. 3. He so far gave man the Covenant of Grace. 4. He so gave all Christ's Miracles, Resurrection, Doctrine, the Scripture, &c. 5. He so gave Apostles and Ministry to the World. 6. He so sendeth the Gospel to some Nations and Persons above others. 7. He so giveth to many the first special Grace, as he did to Paul. 8. He so giveth to many Kingdoms and Persons Wealth, and Health, and Strength, and such other mercies above others. 9. He so giveth greater measures of Grace to some than to others. 10. And it seemeth that he so (in part) giveth the same Glory to some that came in but at the last hour of the day. It is certain, that all in quantum tale, is from God only as a free Benefactor, or as the Amor primus: And the order of distributing it is two-fold: Some antecedent to mans merit or acts, and independent on it: And this is no Reward, (though sometime it is an antecedent act of Justice, such as is the making of a good Law or Promise.) And some consequent juxta morman legis; And these are Rewards: And though God hath assured us now, that no man shall have Heaven but by rewarding Justice, yet that may be, because he thought meet to place man first on Earth in a life of trial, and undetermined Liberty: But that he hath no Angel that was made Immutable, or that Christ was not made immutably holy, let them say that can prove it, for I cannot.