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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.
§. 13. But as there is an Order in these Relations, so is there in the Morality of our Actions as towards them: So that the Last still includeth the rest foregoing. All Love is Obedience; and all Obedience is submission to our Owner: But all Obedience is not Love, nor all Submission or Resignation, formal obedience to a Rector: Though they must all concur, and not be divided, when they are formally distinguished.
§. 13. But as there is an Order in these Relations, so is there in the Morality of our Actions as towards them: So that the Last still includeth the rest foregoing. All Love is Obedience; and all Obedience is submission to our Owner: But all Obedience is not Love, nor all Submission or Resignation, formal obedience to a Rector: Though they must all concurr, and not be divided, when they are formally distinguished.
§. 14. I have thought it necessary (though I be guilty of some repetition) to open here the Doctrine of formal Morality (Virtue and Vice,) because we cannot understand how God is vindicated from being the Author of sin, till we know what sin is; which we cannot do till we know what Virtue is; which we cannot do, till we know what Morality is: And also because the Schoolmens most subtle elaborate enquiries into this point (especially de natur• peccati) are generally too little subtle or accurate, as comparing it with this little, you may perceive.
§. 14. I have thought it necessary (though I be guilty of some repetition) to open here the Doctrine of formal Morality (Virtue and Vice,) because we cannot understand how God is vindicated from being the Author of sin, till we know what sin is; which we cannot do till we know what Virtue is; which we cannot do, till we know what Morality is: And also because the Schoolmens most subtile elaborate enquiries into this point (especially de natur• peccati) are generally too little subtile or accurate, as comparing it with this little, you may perceive.