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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.
§. 20. And then exceeding wickedness will make them Devils; and all that they here initially brought on themselves, will be there in eminency. Their Minds will be blind as to Good and Evil, though not as to mere notional ⟨p. 66⟩Truth. Their wills set against Gods will. Their hatred of God and goodness increased: Their Intellects, memories and thoughts, will be the treasury of pain; Their wills and affections the seat of misery And their invigorated power, will make all lively.
§. 20. And then exceeding wickedness will make them Devils; and all that they here initially brought on themselves, will be there in eminency. Their Minds will be blind as to Good and Evil, though not as to meer notional ⟨p. 66⟩Truth. Their wills set against Gods will. Their hatred of God and goodness increased: Their Intellects, memories and thoughts, will be the treasury of pain; Their wills and affections the seat of misery• And their invigorated power, will make all lively.
§. 21. And a mind thus blinded cannot see God as Good, but only as hurtful by Justice. A Will that hath no Love to God and holiness, can take no delight in them. Heaven must be to them as a feast to a sick stomach: They turn their own Hearts from God and Heaven, and deprive themselves of all its joys. They hate the Heavenly society; and so •an be none of their companions in delight. They deprive themselves of Innocency, of Divine Love, of the Grace of the Holy Ghost, of part in Christ, of peace of Conscience, by wilful diversion, opposition and incapacity, as he that shuts his Windows against the Sun-light. It is themselves that turn themselves thus out of Heaven.
§. 21. And a mind thus blinded cannot see God as Good, but only as hurtful by Justice. A Will that hath no Love to God and holiness, can take no delight in them. Heaven must be to them as a feast to a sick stomach: They turn their own Hearts from God and Heaven, and deprive themselves of all its joyes. They hate the Heavenly society; and so an be none of their companions in delight. They deprive themselves of Innocency, of Divine Love, of the Grace of the Holy Ghost, of part in Christ, of peace of Conscience, by wilful diversion, opposition and incapacity, as he that shuts his Windows against the Sun-light. It is themselves that turn themselves thus out of Heaven.