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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 presumptuous adding to Gods Word, in the very substance of the Covenants; yea and a flat contradiction of it 1. What Scripture telleth us, That all Adam's Posterity should have been confirmed in immutable Holiness, if he had obeyed?
2. What Scripture saith, That one Act should have done this?
3. What Scripture saith, That his Righteousness should have been imputed to all his Posterity? and they all accounted to have fulfilled the Law in him? The Scripture tells us nothing of Gods purpose to make so sudden a change of his Law, as if he made it but for one man, yea for o•• Act, and then would make another to Rule the World by ever after: The Law said (in sense) [Obey perfectly and live; Sin and die]. Now if the Condition had been performed by one Act, or one man, for all the World that ever should come of him to the last, and they all be born in the fixed possession of the Reward, then the Law which giveth that Reward still but conditionally hath no more place. As in Hell, God doth not say to the damned, Obey and live, so neither doth he say to them in immutable Glory, I give you immutable Glory if you will obey. The means cease so far as the end is either attained, or desperately lost. He that saith, Run well, and you shall have the prize: Fight well, and you shall be crowned; Overcome, and I will give you a Kingdom; will not say the same to them, when after running, fighting, overcoming, they have received the Prize, the Crown, the Kingdom; (though possibly they may have the continuance on condition still if that continuance was not also promised on the first condition alone.) So that you feign Gods Law to be incredibly mutable, if God said by it to Adam, Obey in one Act (o• ⟨p. 15⟩