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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.
11. Man having thus cast away Gods Image and his Innocency, could beget a Child no purer, holier or better than himself: For he could not communicate that which he had lost. So that our Nature is vitiated with Original sin, and unhappy in the miserable effects. Bradwardine hath a shift which serveth them that say man could do no good in Innocency without supernatural Help, viz. Making that Help to be Gods Will that it shall be done: But is not Gods Will called our natural Help when it is the foundation of Nature, working by natural means? It's true that free will without Gods Will could do nothing.
12. The promissory part of the Covenant or Law of Innocency became null or ceased with man's first sin, cessante subditorum capacitate; and so the Condition which is its modus. So that no man ever since was under the Obligation of that Law as a Covenant of life, saying [Be Perfect or Innocent and Live], nor obliged to perfect personal perpetual obedience as the condition of Life; for it was become naturally impossible. And God maketh not Promises and Covenants upon Natural impossibilities, whatever we say of Moral ones. If the Devils before their fall were under this Covenant [Be Perfect and Live.] Yet now they are not under it.
12. The promisory part of the Covenant or Law of Innocency became null or ceased with man's first sin, cessante subditorum capacitate; and so the Condition which is its modus. So that no man ever since was under the Obligation of that Law as a Covenant of life, saying [Be Perfect or Innocent and Live], nor obliged to perfect personal perpetual obedience as the condition of Life; for it was become naturally impossible. And God maketh not Promises and Covenants upon Natural impossibilities, whatever we say of Moral ones. If the Devils before their fall were under this Covenant [Be Perfect and Live.] Yet now they are not under it.