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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. › Section 1: The first Law.
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.
3. Yet hath God placed and kept these free Agents, not only under his Moral Government, but also under his Dominion and disposal; so that he will do with them as his own, what he lift, and none shall frustrate his disposing Will.
4. It pleased him first to make man perfect under a Law of Perfection, making innocency or perfection the only condition of Life, and the contrary of Death.
5. When Man had sufficient Grace to have kept this Law (not sufficient to ascertain the event, but sufficient Power to have stood, that is▪ as much Grace as was necessary to his standing, sine qua non esse potuit▪ & cum qua esse potuit) he broke it, and sinned against that sufficient, Grace, before God either denied him any thing necessary, or withdrew any from him.
5. When Man had sufficient Grace to have kept this Law (not sufficient to ascertain the event, but sufficient Power to have stood, that is▪ as much Grace as was necessary to his standing, sine qua non esse potuit▪ & cum qua esse potuit) he broke it, and sinned against that sufficient, Grace, before God either denyed him any thing necessary, or withdrew any from him.