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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.
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?
XLV. Is not the objective Reason in Devils of mans implanted Enmity against them, Gen. 3. 15. because they are Enemies to God and us, as being themselves Lovers of sin, and Tempters of us to sin and misery?
XLVI. Doth not he take the directest course to root out the Love of God and all Religion from the World, and to tempt men to hate God, and so to begin a Hell on Earth, who describeth God in Satan's likeness and much worse; as much as being the principal cause of all sin in men and Devils, is worse than sinning when predetermined, and tempting others to it?
XLVI. Doth not he take the directest course to root out the Love of God and all Religion from the World, and to tempt men to hate God, and so to begin a Hell on Earth, who describeth God in Satans likeness and much worse; as much as being the principal cause of all sin in men and Devils, is worse than sinning when predetermined, and tempting others to it?