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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.
1. If it be yet a Promise, it is Absolute (which none saith) or Conditional: And if so, either the Condition is quid praeteritum, quid praesen•, vel quid futurum: But none of these; 1. A Past and Present Condition are not proper Conditions of the thing, but forms of speech: And either that Condition already is, or is not; If it be; the Promise is absolute in sense: If it be not; the Promise is No Promise i• sense, but equivalent to a Negation, as common reason as well as the civil Law confesseth. If it be quid Ignotum, the notice may be Conditional still, but not the proper Donation. But here it is quid notissimu•, and God is feigned to say, If Adam and his Posterity have no sin, I will justify and bless them; which is equivalent to [I will not]. If the Condition be supposed Future, e. g. [If Adam and his seed sin no more, they are just] it is false, because they are already guilty.
1. If it be yet a Promise, it is Absolute (which none saith) or Conditional: And if so, either the Condition is quid praeteritum, quid praesen•, vel quid futurum: But none of these; 1. A Past and Present Condition are not proper Conditions of the thing, but forms of speech: And either that Condition already is, or is not; If it be; the Promise is absolute in sence: If it be not; the Promise is No Promise i• sence, but equivalent to a Negation, as common reason as well as the civil Law confesseth. If it be quid Ignotum, the notice may be Conditional still, but not the proper Donation. But here it is quid notissimu•, and God is feigned to say, If Adam and his Posterity have no sin, I will justifie and bless them; which is equivalent to [I will not]. If the Condition be supposed Future, e. g. [If Adam and his seed sin no more, they are just] it is false, because they are already guilty.
2. The essence of a Condition is to suspend the effect, till performed. But here the effect is not suspended: Ergo there is no conditional promise, Total loss is no suspension.