A26883:1686
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.
But here the difficulty is exceeding great, what love to God that is which mortal Sin or ungodliness is inconsistent with: or by which a man may know that he hath saving Grace. I have contented my self hither-to with saying that It is a loving God above all: But that is still dark and short of satisfaction: Adrian (after Pope 6.) Quolib. 7. q. 3. 4. fol. 45, 46. hath called me to distincter thoughts. He concludeth, 1. A man that loveth a friend less than himself, may yet Sin mortally for that friend. (But that is no wonder, because, 1. He loveth his friend and self more tha• God. 2. And thinketh that he hurteth not himself so much as he profiteth his friend by Sin) 2. He inferreth that a Mortal Sinner doth not always love the Creature more than God; because he that loveth himself more may Sin mortally in love to his friend: For as a man may love himself more than the sole end for which he sinneth: So he may love God more.
Ans. I suppose it is mis-printed, for the sense should be [He may love God more]. But, 1. I doubt of the antecedent: That Sinner loveth himself as the End of his sinning for his friend: For it is to gratify that proud or selfish humour by which he loveth his friend for the Likeness, Love or Usefulness of that friend to himself; and so his love is finally for or to himself. 2. When he sinneth he doth not practically think that the hurt to himself or the wrong to God is so great an evil, as the pleasure of Sin is good.
Ans. I suppose it is mis-printed, for the sence should be [He may love God more]. But, 1. I doubt of the antecedent: That Sinner loveth himself as the End of his sinning for his friend: For it is to gratifie that proud or selfish humour by which he loveth his friend for the Likeness, Love or Usefulness of that friend to himself; and so his love is finally for or to himself. 2. When he sinneth he doth not practically think that the hurt to himself or the wrong to God is so great an evil, as the pleasure of Sin is good.