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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.
XLII. Q. Doth not this doctrine make the sanctification of the Holy Ghost to be unnecessary? when all that is to be done to save us from sin, is for God not to make us sin by his premotion▪ Or doth it not make sanctification to be nothing but this predetermination of God, which is made as necessary to sin as to duty, and so natural and gracious operations made the same, and God to do as much to produce evil efficiently as good?
XLIII. Q. Is it not much worse to man, if God by predetermination make him first a sinner, (and wicked by sinful Habits) and then damn him for it, than if he should damn an innocent man for nothing? For sin and pain is far worse than pain without sin. And to compel the will unwillingly to sin, were it possible, is less than to make it willing.
XLIV. Doth not he that affirmeth that the Devil doth but sin as efficiently predetermined by God, and doth not force, nor determine any mans will to any sinful act, but that God predetermineth all men and Devils to every sinful act committed, I say, doth he not describe God as worse than Satan (horresco quaerens!) if sin be the denominating evil, and the causing of sin be more than tempting to it? Had I not rather my will were resistibly ⟨p. 86⟩tempted to sin, than unresistibly made to sin, by predetermining efficient premotion?