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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.
§. 6. 1. In that he hath made so large provision of means, and that in an admirable frame, which is as it were, a Moral world. Which he would never do in vain; nor if he ordinarily worked without them that work which he hath appointed them to do. It is the reason of the British Divines in their suffrages at Dort. Had not God decreed to work Grace by means, he could have done it with a fiat.
§. 6. 1. In that he hath made so large provision of means, and that in an admirable frame, which is as it were, a Moral world. Which he would never do in vain; nor if he ordinarily workt without them that work which he hath appointed them to do. It is the reason of the Brittish Divines in their suffrages at Dort. Had not God decreed to work Grace by means, he could have done it with a fiat.
§. 7. 2. The Glory of this Kingdom or Sapiential Rule, which is so constantly and largely given him in the Scripture, Psal. 103. 10. and 145. and 119. throughout; and Matth. 25. As the Ship▪master or Pilot is praised who by a Helm can turn about the Ship as he will, Jam. 3. 4.
§. 8. 3. God worketh on all things according to their nature: And this is suitable to the nature of man: And the Causation is answerable to the effect: And ORDER is a moral effect, which needeth not a Creation but a moral ordering Causation.