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,…

XIII. His distinction of Natural and Moral Impotency is good▪ But then that Moral Impotency it self must not be made the same with the Natural: else there will be the same reason for excusing sin by it. If mans Will had been made by God such as could not possibly love him or holiness, it would not have left a man unexcusable in judgement, that his enmity was Voluntary: It is reason enough for a man to kill a •oad or ⟨p. 101⟩Serpent as malum sibi naturale, because it is a hurtful creature; But this is no Moral Evil in them, nor is their death their punishment: nor yet in any ravenous creature, which preyeth on the rest that are innocent. And so would it be with bad men, if God had made them bad▪ Indeed if Adam have made them all bad, and God have given no Saviour▪ Grace or Remedy, they are con•emnable and unexcusable, as they were virtually in Adam, if judged only by the Law of Innocency as made to Adam: But they are excusable if judged by Christ by the Law of grace, which condemneth no man merely as not innocent, or a sinner, but as a rejecter of grace. These things are so plain and weighty, that Ja•senius should not join with the Antinomians in opposing them.

XIII. His distinction of Natural and Moral Impotency is good▪ But then that Moral Impotency it self must not be made the same with the Natural: else there will be the same reason for excusing sin by it. If mans Will had been made by God such as could not possibly love him or holiness, it would not have left a man unexcusable in judgement, that his enmity was Voluntary: It is reason enough for a man to kill a •oad or ⟨p. 101⟩Serpent as malum sibi naturale, because it is a hurtful creature; But this is no Moral Evil in them, nor is their death their punishment: nor yet in any ravenous creature, which preyeth on the rest that are innocent. And so would it be with bad men, if God had made them bad Indeed if Adam have made them all bad, and God have given no Saviour Grace or Remedy, they are conemnable and unexcusable, as they were virtually in Adam, if judged only by the Law of Innocency as made to Adam: But they are excuseable if judged by Christ by the Law of grace, which condemneth no man meerly as not innocent, or a sinner, but as a rejecter of grace. These things are so plain and weighty, that Jasenius should not joyn with the Antinomians in opposing them.