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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.
§. 30. †They that say, He causeth all that man causeth, and that as the first necessitating or insuperable cause; but yet is not the cause of the form of sin, contradict themselves; seeing that form is but a Relation, which resulteth ipso facto from its fundamentam and terminus, and nè per divinam potentiam cannot but do so; And hath no other cause but what causeth them.
§. 30. †They that say, He causeth all that man causeth, and that as the first neces•itating or insuperable cause; but yet is not the cause of the form of sin, contradict themselves; seeing that form is but a Relation, which resulteth ipso facto from its fundamentam and terminus, and nè per divinam potentiam cannot but do so; And hath no other cause but what causeth them.
- †Bradwardi• dealeth more plainly, and maketh Gods effectual Volition to be the total immediate cause that man sinneth, though it be no sin in God to do so▪ and saith that God willeth it for good uses, (as the sinner doth, or if he do not, it is because God maketh him unavoidably do otherwise.)
§. 31. And they that say, that yet God is not the Author of sin, because he is under no Law, do but sport with dreadful things. And they mean that God is the chief Cause of all mens sins in the world, but not of any sin of his own; which is none of the question.