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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.
§. 5. The superior faculties, as they are more noble, are capable of greater misery; and their corruption and disorder is the worst. To have an ignorant erring mind, that taketh evil for good, and good for evil; To have a carnal, malignant, wicked, obstinate, froward Will and sinful Affections, and by these to have mens actions misguided, and so the sensitive soul it self brought into the foresaid misery, through bad government, is a misery to man in the Nature, and immediate effects of the thing.
§. 5. The superiour faculties, as they are more noble, are capable of greater misery; and their corruption and disorder is the worst. To have an ignorant erring mind, that taketh evil for good, and good for evil; To have a carnal, malignant, wicked, obstinate, froward Will and sinful Affections, and by these to have mens actions misguided, and so the sensitive soul it self brought into the foresaid misery, through bad government, is a misery to man in the Nature, and immediate effects of the thing.
§. 6. Man liveth among multitudes of fellow Creatures in the world, which will all be tormentors of him if he will make them such. As a post will hurt him if he knock his head to it. The fire will burn him if he touch his flesh with it. The water will drown him if he will leap into it over-head. The Sun will scorch him, the frost will pain him, if he expose himself to them. A Lyon or Mastiff will tear him if he avoid them not. His neighbours will hurt him, (likely) if he hurt them, and cross their interest: Men in power will hurt him if he offend them: And all things will be to him as he behaveth himself to them.
§. 7. All this being Natural, let us now consider what sin doth to the sinner here, and you will find that almost all his calamity consisteth in his very sin it self, and the natural effects of it: But yet it is sin as mans, and it is punishment as from God, when yet God is no Cause of the sin.