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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.
§. 11. To be short, he maintaineth, that man can have no freedom from necessitating predetermination; If he should it would cross the nature of God, of the creature, of the soul, and the unity and harmony of all things; But that God causeth all sin negatively as necessarily, as he causeth darkness, or any natural privation: But then he doth with a torrent of Rhetoric so Praise Gods design in it, and the beauty and harmony of all things made up of good and evil, unities, varieties, diversities and contrarieties, and showeth so largely the glory that cometh to God by sin, and the good to the Universe, and that it's but our narrowness and weakness of sight that maketh us take it to be any other than a part of the glory of the universe, though bad in and to the person that sinneth, that I confess I never found my self more tempted to Love sin, or to cease my hatred of it, than by his florid Oratory.
§. 11. To be short, he maintaineth, that man can have no freedom from necessitating predetermination; If he should it would cross the nature of God, of the creature, of the soul, and the unity and harmony of all things; But that God causeth all sin negatively as necessarily, as he causeth darkness, or any natural privation: But then he doth with a torrent of Rhetorick so Praise Gods design in it, and the beauty and harmony of all things made up of good and evil, unities, varieties, diversities and contrarieties, and sheweth so largely the glory that cometh to God by sin, and the good to the Universe, and that it's but our narrowness and weakness of sight that maketh us take it to be any other than a part of the glory of the universe, though bad in and to the person that sinneth, that I confess I never found my self more tempted to Love sin, or to cease my hatred of it, than by his florid Oratory.
§. 12. And withal, as he resolveth all the rest of Morality into Physical conceptions, so he seemeth to judge suitably of Hell and of Redemption, supposing that all this darkness that God brings on sinners, is but to prepare for ⟨p. 111⟩their resurrection to a life of unity and glory; and that it shall go well with them in the end.