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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.
30. But that which Nature revealeth about the penalty, is 1. Not that God of necessity must punish the loss of Innocency as highly as he may do. 2. But that he may justly punish the Sinner in rigour, by temporal, spiritual and eternal miseries. 3. And that the Ends of Government (the honour of his Wisdom, Goodness, Power, Truth and Justice, and the order of the humane world) do require that sin scape not free, but some exemplary punishment be a Vindication of God, and a warning to Man: which our death, afflictions, and spiritual sufferings manifest in part, and the sufferings of Christ more fully. So that pardon, and dispensing in part with his Right to punish us according to the Law first broken, is no falsehood in God, nor any injustice, nor any violation of his Law of Nature.
30. But that which Nature revealeth about the penalty, is 1. Not that God of necessity must punish the loss of Innocency as highly as he may do. 2. But that he may justly punish the Sinner in rigour, by temporal, spiritual and eternal miseries. 3. And that the Ends of Government (the honour of his Wisdom, Goodness, Power, Truth and Justice, and the order of the humane world) do require that sin scape not free, but some exemplary punishment be a Vindication of God, and a warning to Man: which our death, afflictions, and spiritual sufferings manifest in part, and the sufferings of Christ more fully. So that pardon, and dispensing in part with his Right to punish us according to the Law first broken, is no falshood in God, nor any injustice, nor any violation of his Law of Nature.
31. The Law which God put all mankind under after the fall, and the world without the Church is under still, is the Preceptive part of the Law of Innocent Nature as de futuro, the promise of it being ceased, and the penalty not totally nullified, but made remediable by an act of oblivion or Conditional Covenant of Grace. q. d. [Thou shalt perfectly obey me, for the time to come; and every sin shall deserve everlasting punishment, so far as that I might justly inflict it, and will do it if it be not remitted: But all thy sin shall be forgiven thee, and thou shalt have the free gift of pardon and salvation, if thou Believe in me thy merciful Saviour, and repent and give up thy self to me to be saved, and to be Mine by sincere obedience and Love.]