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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
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.
29. That which is called the Covenant of Nature or Innocency, was in the Main the very Law of Innocent Nature in all the parts of it. 1. Nature being perfect, revealed Man's Duty perfectly to obey. 2. Nature declared Punishment to be due to sin; yea to all sin. And this punishment to be suitable to the nature of the Offender compared with the God offended, and the injury done. Especially that if men will undo themselves, by forsaking Life and Love and Joy, and casting themselves into darkness, diseasedness and misery, when it is foreshown them, God is not bound to hinder or recover them. 3. Nature telleth man that God who made his Soul a simple Intellectual spirit, and Life it self (though created and dependant) intended not to annihilate it; and that its noble faculties, fitted to know God, and Love him, and Live to him perfectly in Immortality, were made for this employment in Immortality, and not in vain. And that he that Naturally maketh it mans duty to hope and seek for Immortal happiness, hath not made this hope or duty in vain: Nor will fail or frustrate or destroy them that forfeit not their hopes. So that the Covenant depends not alone upon supernatural Revelation.
29. That which is called the Covenant of Nature or Innocency, was in the Main the very Law of Innocent Nature in all the parts of it. 1. Nature being perfect, revealed Man's Duty perfectly to obey. 2. Nature declared Punishment to be due to sin; yea to all sin. And this punishment to be suitable to the nature of the Offender compared with the God offended, and the injury done. Especially that if men will undoe themselves, by forsaking Life and Love and Joy, and casting themselves into darkness, diseasedness and misery, when it is foreshewn them, God is not bound to hinder or recover them. 3. Nature telleth man that God who made his Soul a simple Intellectual spirit, and Life it self (though created and dependant) intended not to annihilate it; and that its noble faculties, fitted to know God, and Love him, and Live to him perfectly in Immortality, were made for this employment in Immortality, and not in vain. And that he that Naturally maketh it mans duty to hope and seek for Immortal happiness, hath not made this hope or duty in vain: Nor will fail or frustrate or destroy them that forfeit not their hopes. So that the Covenant depends not alone upon supernatural Revelation.