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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.
2. This Law bindeth us as the Creator's Law: but not as mere Creator: But as put with Nature into the hand and power of the Redeemer, to whom all Power or Government is committed, and so all Laws are now both the Creators and Redeemers.
2. This Law bindeth us as the Creator's Law: but not as meer Creator: But as put with Nature into the hand and power of the Redeemer, to whom all Power or Government is committed, and so all Laws are now both the Creators and Redeemers.
3. These Precepts bind us not now in so full a sort as they did Adam, even to obedience; Though the Law be as perfect: Because there is some Dispositio Recipientis necessary to the effecting an Obligation upon us: And where any Natural Impossibility hath befallen us, though by sin, it will make some alteration in the obligation.
3. These Precepts bind us not now in so full a sort as they did Adam, even to obedience; Though the Law be as perfect: Because there is some Dispositio Recipientis necessary to the effecting an Obligation upon us: And where any Natural Impossibility hath befaln us, though by sin, it will make some alteration in the obligation.
4. The Commination of the said Law is so far still in force, as to make Punishment (even perpetual) to be our desert for every sin, and so far to oblige us to Punishment, that if we are not pardoned, we shall not escape; for it is natural for sin to deserve Punishment.