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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.
§. 8. As God is Related to us as our Owner, Ruler and our chief good, (efficiently as our Benefactor, and finally as our End;) so to consent to these Relations, and to the Duties of our correlations, and to Practise them, is the sum of all Moral Good; even Dispositively and Actually, to be Resigned and devoted to God as our Owner, to obey and please him as our Ruler, and to be Thankful to Him, and totally Love Him, as our Benefactor and our ultimate End. All Moral Goodness lieth in this.
§. 8. As God is Related to us as our Owner, Ruler and our chief good, (efficiently as our Benefactor, and finally as our End;) so to consent to these Relations, and to the Duties of our correlations, and to Practise them, is the summ of all Moral Good; even Dispositively and Actually, to be Resigned and devoted to God as our Owner, to obey and please him as our Ruler, and to be Thankful to Him, and totally Love Him, as our Benefactor and our ultimate End. All Moral Goodness lyeth in this.
§. 9. By which it appeareth, that Morality consisteth in the due or undue ORDER of our actions and dispositions, as they are a Moral Agent's related to God himself in these three Relations, and to his Actions therein, viz. his Disposals, his Laws, and his Attractive final Goodness with his Benefits.
§. 10. In these, the Morality consisteth as simpliciter talis in all three inseparably, (as Gods Relations are inseparable and our correlations:) But the Relation of our Actions to any one of them, is Morality secundum quid.