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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.
§. 9. Pag. 113, 114, &c. He saith [The Immediate cause of the first change made in the understanding at the fall, was the Divine Glory withdrawing or withholding it self—Darkness is the privation of Light: Privations have no proper Causes, but accidental only. Thus the Divine Glory retiring from the understanding, or ceasing to shine in it, is by accident the cause of the darkness there; as the Setting or departing of the Sun is the cause of Night; which is not a blemish to the Sun, but its glory, that in its presence are all the beauties and joys of light, in its absence all the disagreeableness and melancholies of night and darkness: Pag. 115. All evil is from the absence of God, &c. P. 117. The fault in man is the deficiency which ariseth from the defectibility or nothingness of the Creature, in its shadowy state, in the purity of its first Creation. Pag. 122. The fall springs from the Harmony of the eternal design in the Divine mind, being comprehended in it as a part of it.]
§. 9. Pag. 113, 114, &c. He saith [The Immediate cause of the first change made in the understanding at the fall, was the Divine Glory withdrawing or withholding it self—Darkness is the privation of Light: Privations have no proper Causes, but accidental only. Thus the Divine Glory retiring from the understanding, or ceasing to shine in it, is by accident the cause of the darkness there; as the Setting or departing of the Sun is the cause of Night; which is not a blemish to the Sun, but its glory, that in its presence are all the beauties and joyes of light, in its absence all the disagreeableness and melancholies of night and darkness: Pag. 115. All evil is from the absence of God, &c. P. 117. The fault in man is the deficiency which ariseth from the defectibility or nothingness of the Creature, in its shadowy state, in the purity of its first Creation. Pag. 122. The fall springs from the Harmony of the eternal design in the Divine mind, being comprehended in it as a part of it.]
§. 10. And yet he makes man Guilty and unexcuse•ble, and God just i• this; because [Guilt is but our being really bad: And he that cannot deny himself to be bad, is unexcuseable: And the opening of this causeth shame: And Justice is to Judge and use all creatures as they are.]