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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.
186. If all had been taken from Gods honour which had been given to the Creature, God would have made nothing, or made nothing Good;- Heaven and Earth, and all the World would derogate from his honour; and none of his Works should be praised: And the better any man is, the more he would dishonour God; and the wickeder the les•. But he made all Good, and is Glorious in the Glory, and honourable in the honour of all: And to justify the holiness of his Servants is to justify him.
186. If all had been taken from Gods honour which had been given to the Creature, God would have made nothing, or made nothing Good;- Heaven and Earth, and all the World would derrogate from his honour; and none of his Works should be praised: And the better any man is, the more he would dishonour God; and the wickeder the les•. But he made all Good, and is Glorious in the Glory, and honourable in the honour of all: And to justifie the holiness of his Servants is to justifie him.
187. If these Teachers mean that no man hath any power freely to specify the Acts of his own will, by any other help of God, besides necessitating predetermining premotion, and so that every man doth all that he can do, and no man can do more than he doth; They dishonour God by denying him to be the Creator of that Free-power, which is essential to man, and which God himself accounteth it his honour to create. And they feign God to damn and blame all that are damned and blamed, for as great Impossibilities, as if they were ⟨p. 75⟩damned and blamed for not making a world, or for not being Angels.
187. If these Teachers mean that no man hath any power freely to specifie the Acts of his own will, by any other help of God, besides necessitating predetermining premotion, and so that every man doth all that he can do, and no man can do more than he doth; They dishonour God by denying him to be the Creator of that Free-power, which is essential to man, and which God himself accounteth it his honour to create. And they feign God to damn and blame all that are damned and blamed, for as great Impossibilities, as if they were