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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.
14. To mourn for sin, and confess it, and strive against it, or talk of Christs suffering or satisfying for it, any otherwise than as a Voluntary disease and misery of man, or to avoid any sin any otherwise than as a misery to our selves or others, is but the error of superstitious men.
14. To mourn for sin, and confess it, and strive against it, or talk of Christs suffering or satisfying for it, any otherwise than as a Voluntary disease and misery of man, or to avoid any sin any otherwise than as a misery to our selves or others, is but the errour of superstitious men.
15. Men should do all that ever they can to cure their sins, and live holily, so far as increaseth not their misery, and no further; and this only as a physical Voluntary perfection, and as the avoiding of a natural misery to themselves and others.
16. God will punish man, not out of any hatred of sin (which he willeth and causeth) but out of a differencing will, as he maketh Toads and Serpents, and causeth Cattle and Fowl to be killed by us, and Horses laboured in pain: Therefore we have no reason to fear any other misery in Hell, than Gods arbitrary disposal bringeth on the more wretched sort of his Creatures, without any sinful commerit or provocation; and perhaps little more than we voluntarily here choose and bring upon our selves, or of ⟨p. 88⟩the same kind, our sin it self being our punishment though it pleaseth us, (As scratching is to him that hath the itch.)