A26883:1943
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.
§. 10. Though God be one and the same, and Christ the same, and the Law and Word and many Antecedent means the same to many on whom they have different effects, This difference may be caused many ways. 1As 1. By the diversity of other inferior or concomitant second causes: 2. By the diverse Disposition of the Receivers (a common cause of varieties in the World:) 3. By the diversity of Impediments and temptations: And many other ways.
§. 10. Though God be one and the same, and Christ the same, and the Law and Word and many Antecedent means the same to many on whom they have different effects, This difference may be caused many wayes. 1As 1. By the diversity of other inferiour or concomitant second causes: 2. By the diverse Disposition of the Receivers (a common cause of varieties in the World:) 3. By the diversity of Impediments and temptations: And many other wayes.
- 1The Causes of difference.
§. 11. *The great question is, How far the diversity of Receptive Dispositions is from God? Answ. 1. God made all equal at first in Adam. 2. All were equal in sin by his fall. 3. Cain and Abel differed from several causes, and not one alone. Abel differed from Cain in faith and obedience, by Gods grace as the chief cause, and his own will and agency as the second cause. Cain differed from Abel by unbelief and sin, by his own will and Satan's temptations. 4. The sins of later parents (as of Cain, Ham, Esau, Achan, Gehezi, &c.) make a further difference, by depriving their posterity of some means, helps or grace, which else they had been equally capable of with others. 5. It is certain that man hath much to do about his own heart, by which he is to be the second cause of his own Receptive disposition; and if he fail, is the only cause of his indisposition.