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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.
§. 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.
§. 12. It is not only sub ration• obedientia as it is a thing commanded by a Law, that Love to God is Morally good, but also in that superior sense, formally as it is the Love of God. And therefore Love is called the Law of Laws, and the fulfilling of the Law, not only as commanded by a Law, but as being the End of the Law, and the state of perfection above it (as Christ is to the Law of Moses;) and also as being a Law eminenter (something greater) though not formaliter.
§. 12. It is not only sub ration• obedientia as it is a thing commanded by a Law, that Love to God is Morally good, but also in that superiour sense, formally as it is the Love of God. And therefore Love is called the Law of Laws, and the fulfilling of the Law, not only as commanded by a Law, but as being the End of the Law, and the state of perfection above it (as Christ is to the Law of Moses;) and also as being a Law eminenter (something greater) though not formaliter.