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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. 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.
3. When the Condition is once totally violated and become impossible, all sense and civil Law saith, Res transit in judicatum, & Lex in Sententiam; and the Promise ceaseth Cessante capacitate Promissarit: And so it is here.
3. When the Condition is once totally violated and become impossible, all sence and civil Law saith, Res transit in judicatum, & Lex in Sententiam; and the Promise ceaseth Cessante capacitate Promissarit: And so it is here.
4. That which is a Promise is also a Law, and is essentially the Expression of Gods Will for the Government of his Subjects, and for a conditional Rule of Right to the thing promised: This is its very definition▪ But it is unworthy of God, to say that he doth ever since the fall, tell the world, [If you are not fallen or Sinners, you shall be justified] or [on condition that you be such as never did sin, you shall live]. This were to threaten or condemn us ironically or with derision, under the name of a Promise, or Covenant, or Law.
4. That which is a Promise is also a Law, and is essentially the Expression of Gods Will for the Government of his Subjects, and for a conditional Rule of Right to the thing promised: This is its very definition▪ But it is unworthy of God, to say that he doth ever since the fall, tell the world, [If you are not faln or Sinners, you shall be justified] or [on condition that you be such as never did sin, you shall live]. This were to threaten or condemn us ironically or with derision, under the name of a Promise, or Covenant, or Law.