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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.
By which we see that when sin and punishment are found in one thing, God is the Cause (Antecedently) of the formal Relation of a Punishment, without being a Cause of the sin: yea, antecedently is some cause of the formal relation of the sin, by his Law, without causing any of the sin it self, as the author of it.
As if God make man of such a temper, as that surfeiting, drunkenness, lust, will make him sick, and hazard his life; Here God did no otherwise punish him than by making him such a man; which he turned to his own destruction by his sin. If a man make a thorn Hedge about his Garden, that men may not steal his fruit, and those that will shall •rick themselves, it is they that prick and punish themselves. If God say, He that will leap into the fire shall be burnt, or into the water shall be drowned; it is they that do it that cause the evil; and yet some formal relation of penalty may result to it from Gods conditional antecedent Law. I say not that God executeth no other kind of punishment: But these are the most common.
As if God make man of such a temper, as that surfetting, drunkenness, lust, will make him sick, and hazard his life; Here God did no otherwise punish him than by making him such a man; which he turned to his own destruction by his sin. If a man make a thorn Hedge about his Garden, that men may not steal his fruit, and those that will shall •rick themselves, it is they that prick and punish themselves. If God say, He that will leap into the fire shall be burnt, or into the water shall be drown'd; it is they that do it that cause the evil; and yet some formal relation of penalty may result to it from Gods conditional antecedent Law. I say not that God executeth no other kind of punishment: But these are the most common.