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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.
§. 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.
§. 8. This is plain if you consider that Gods Act by which he maketh sin a Punishment, was Before the sin, though the Relation of a Punishment come after the relation of sin. Here are two Agents, 1. God making Nature and a Law therein; 2. Man disordering his actions by transgressing. 3. Hence Immediately followeth Guilt or the form of sin. 4. And with it, even in the change, or after it, the natural pain, of loss or hurt; 5. And this is Related to man as a punishment for the sin, in the last place.