A26883:1841
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.
§. 20. From the first resulteth NECESSITY properly so called: From the second Moral RECTITUDE: In the third is FELICITY; as to single persons.
§. 21. From the first (viz. God as Actor) upon Many or the Universe, ariseth CO-OPERATION or Concurse; All things work together, as the Wheels in a Watch. From the second (Divine ORDERING) ariseth HARMONY: and from the third, UNIVERSAL PERFECTION and Melody of the whole Creation; and to man, perfect Love.
§. 22. Motion is unresistible unless by a greater or unequal Contrary Motion, or passive impedition: and its effect as such not free, but Necessary. Government by Law is resistible, and obedience free. Final Goodness or Love, do perfect and felicitate, necessarily and freely, not effecting, (for so they are not now considered) but satisfying so far as they are enjoyed.
§. 23. The Creation being past, and Beings existent (except what Generation and Composition make, unsearchably▪) and Gods fundamental RELATIONS settled, we shall confound and be confounded, if we distin-guish not Gods after-actions according to the Relations in which he worketh them, and their foresaid differences in themselves.