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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.
IV. Whether the best actions of Infidels or ungodly men be properly to be called good, is but a Logomachy: Call them but a Less evil, or the abatement of evil, and actions that tend as Means to their repentance, and salvation, and I shall not disagree with you in this.
V. His concession that the first sin was not necessitated is of great moment: But it is a great mistake, that following sins are necessary, because they are punishments. It is not the existence of the sin that is a punishment, but the hurtfulness of it supposing the existence. If drunkenness, or gluttony be themselves noxious and penal, that is but a consequent of their existence, which was not necessitated by God as punishing them that caused them.
VI. The sixth I think sound, and the Schools [pure nature], as if Adams Love (in the principle) was not his necessary Sanity, is unsound.
VII. Here again, 1. I think he giveth too much to free-will in innocency, and too little to God. For Gods Help did not then serve mans will so much as Gods; and God fulfilled all his will while Angels used their power and liberty, and they did no good but what God willed and caused as he saw best. And while man and Angels used their liberty, they fulfilled Gods will in all their duty, as much as if they had been necessitated by natural predetermination.