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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.
§. 1. Again here consider that God made man such as he is in Nature, before either Laws or sins or punishments had any being; so that if you can but forgive God for making you men, (that is, Rational Free-Agents) you can have no fair pretence of quarrel with him: As will appear by these considerations following.
§. 2. Mans Body and sensitive soul are of such a nature, as that things inconvenient will be his pain: He that will take poison shall be griped and tormented by it, and he that will eat unwholesome meat, or will surfeit shall be sick, and he that will cherish diseases by sloth, or excesses, or abuses of nature, will have the pain of them; And he that will wound himself, or break his bones, will be his own afflicter; And he that cuts his throat or hangeth himself, must dye. And all this without any doing of God, besides the making him a man, and continuing such a nature (under his Government) in and with the world.
§. 2. Mans Body and sensitive soul are of such a nature, as that things inconvenient will be his pain: He that will take poison shall be griped and tormented by it, and he that will eat unwholsome meat, or will surfeit shall be sick, and he that will cherish diseases by sloth, or excesses, or abuses of nature, will have the pain of them; And he that will wound himself, or break his bones, will be his own afflicter; And he that cuts his throat or hangeth himself, must dye. And all this without any doing of God, besides the making him a man, and continuing such a nature (under his Government) in and with the world.
§. 3. Not only positive hurting, but omissions will bring mens bodies unto pain and death; As not eating, not exercising, not keeping warm, &c. And consequently such a life of prodigality or sloth as tendeth to such wants.