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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.
§. 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.
§. 32. God doth neither Cause the sin, nor the futurity or existence of it, as some vainly distinguishing, maintain: (especially Dr. Twice and Rutherford.) For (as Estius and others truly say) to cause the sin, is nothing but to cause the existence of it. And sin as sin, Dr. Twice often saith, is not willed by the sinner himself.
§. 32. God doth neither Cause the sin, nor the futurity or existence of it, as some vainly distinguishing, maintain: (especially Dr. Twisse and Rutherford.) For (as Estius and others truly say) to cause the sin, is nothing but to cause the existence of it. And sin as sin, Dr. Twisse often saith, is not willed by the sinner himself.
§. 33. So far as God Causeth not sin, he willeth it not: and they that say that he Loveth and Willeth the existence of it as a means to his glory, abuse Gods Moliness, and are confuted before, Par. 1.