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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.
§. 21. God could cure and sanctify all men, if it were his Absolute will; but he doth not, and will not; being no way obliged: And he will be no loser nor sufferer by the creatures sin.
§. 21. God could cure and sanctifie all men, if it were his Absolute will; but he doth not, and will not; being no way obliged: And he will be no loser nor sufferer by the creatures sin.
§. 22. Gods absolute will is as fully accomplished by mans free acts, as if they were all necessitated and Natural: And mans actions are as free, as if God had made no Absolute Decree of their futurity (as in Good he hath done, if we may so ascribe futurity to his Decrees.)
§. 23. It seemeth that all sin beginneth in the wills omission of what it was able to have done. Even when Adams appetite was to the forbidden fruit, and some think that this was the first part of the sin, it seemeth that it was rather in the Wills not restraining that appetite when it could have done it: And then positive sins do follow thereupon.