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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.
§. 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.
§. 11. And among them all, our Action, (submission, resignation, patience) to God merely as our Owner, is Moral but in the slenderest initial sense. And our Actions as related to him as our Rector, are Moral in the fuller formal sense, (And therefore by most accounted the only formal Morality, as being a relation to a Law): But yet our Actions as Related to God our Benefactor, Lover and End, are Moral in the highest, most perfective notion.
§. 11. And among them all, our Action, (submission, resignation, patience) to God meerly as our Owner, is Moral but in the slenderest initial sense. And our Actions as related to him as our Rector, are Moral in the fuller formal sense, (And therefore by most accounted the only formal Morality, as being a relation to a Law): But yet our Actions as Related to God our Benefactor, Lover and End, are Moral in the highest, most perfective notion.