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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.
§. 4. God as Creator maketh substances, with their necessary Accidents, and as the Natural Orderer of them, placeth them in their natural order: and as Motor (or Actor) he causeth Action as such; But as Moral Rector he causeth only the Moral Order▪ of Actions, as far as belongeth to a Rector (the rest being presupposed in Nature,) and leaveth it to man to cause the rest.
§. 5. Seeing God is not to be blamed for making such a creature as man (of a middle, defectible, undetermined Will, left to his free choice, with necessary helps,) it being part of the beauty of his works to be diversified; He is not then to be blamed for any of the sins of such a creature, because he supporteth his Being and his Active Nature, and is his first cause of Action.
§. 6. God could prevent all future sin, if he absolutely willed so to do, either by destroying the World, or disabling the sinner, or by withholding his Moving Influx, or by such a change of his nature, as should make him indefectible. But he that made man in this Middle state, will so continue him, and not make a change in the frame of Nature, to fulfil our wills.