A26883:1449
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.
126. Others would come nearer the matter, and say that we are •eputed Righteous as fulfillers of the Law, and yet reputed Sinners as Breakers of the Law: and that though there be no medium in naturals between light and darkness, life and death, yet there is between a breaker of the Law, and a fulfiller of it, viz. a non-fulfiller; and between just and unjust, that is not-just: But this is a mere darkness: There •s a medium negative, in a person as not obliged; but none between Positive and Privative in one obliged as such. A stone is neither just nor •rivatively unjust: Nor a man about a thing never commanded or forbidden him: But what's this to the matter? God's Law is pre-supposed: we talk of nothing but Moral acts: The Law forbiddeth Omissions and Commissions: both are sin. Do these men think that he is not reputed Positively just, (and not only not-unjust) who is reputed never to have committed a sin, nor left undone a duty in his life. Can •he Law be fulfilled more than so? What is Righteousness if that be not?
126. Others would come nearer the matter, and say that we are •eputed Righteous as fulfillers of the Law, and yet reputed Sinners as Breakers of the Law: and that though there be no medium in naturals between light and darkness, life and death, yet there is between a •reaker of the Law, and a fulfiller of it, viz. a non-fulfiller; and be•ween just and unjust, that is not-just: But this is a meer darkness: There •s a medium negative, in a person as not obliged; but none between Posi•ive and Privative in one obliged as such. A stone is neither just nor •rivatively unjust: Nor a man about a thing never commanded or for•idden him: But what's this to the matter? God's Law is pre-supposed: we talk of nothing but Moral acts: The Law forbiddeth Omissions and Commissions: both are sin. Do these men think that he is not reputed Positively just, (and not only not-unjust) who is reputed never to have committed a sin, nor left undone a duty in his life. Can he Law be fulfilled more than so? What is Righteousness if that be not?