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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.
§. 19. Jesus Christ▪ and his Gospel with all the fore described frame of moral means, and the Spirit▪ to co-operate, are the proper second causes▪ ⟨p. 60⟩by which God as RECTOR will on his part ordinarily cause Moral Good; and hinder Moral Evil; and by which as our Lover and End he will draw mans soul to himself in Love.
§. 20. God as Rector (though he vary his Laws in some things to several ages and places, and promulgate the same Gospel, with inequality, on several accounts, yet) according to the respective Laws that they are under, dealeth with all men in a certain equality, which is called Justice: that is, His Laws antecedently to mans acts make not difference, and as Judge he maketh none, but what mans different actions require according to the said Laws and Justice. But yet as Owner and as Benefactor he is free (not against, but) above his Laws, to make many inequalities, which are no injustice; they being not acts of formal Government: and so he may do with his own as he list. And thus though God give all their due according to his Law of Grace, yet he giveth to his Elect, such proportions of Grace, as he gave them no antecedent Right to by his Law: (or at least to many of them, passing by the controversy now, whether he do so to them all.)
§. 20. God as Rector (though he vary his Laws in some things to several ages and places, and promulgate the same Gospel, with inequality, on several accounts, yet) according to the respective Laws that they are under, dealeth with all men in a certain equality, which is called Justice: that is, His Laws antecedently to mans acts make not difference, and as Judge he maketh none, but what mans different actions require according to the said Laws and Justice. But yet as Owner and as Benefactor he is free (not against, but) above his Laws, to make many inequalities, which are no injustice; they being not acts of formal Government: and so he may do with his own as he list. And thus though God give all their due according to his Law of Grace, yet he giveth to his Elect, such proportions of Grace, as he gave them no antecedent Right to by his Law: (or at least to many of them, passing by the controversie now, whether he do so to them all.)