A26883:2658
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.
§. 40. And more than so, we doubt not but all Gods works are perfect, it being their perfection to be suited to his own will. And the difference between us and Mr. Sterry, Dr. Twice, &c. is not▪ Whether ⟨p. 117⟩God be Glorious in all his works, or they be perfect: For we say, that though mans sin be found upon Gods works, and that sin be none of his works, nor any means (properly so called) of Pleasing or Glorifying him, nor at all willed or caused by him, but hated and punished; yet he loseth none of his complacency or glory by it, but notwithstanding its malignity, shineth gloriously in the perfection of all his works.
§. 40. And more than so, we doubt not but all Gods works are perfect, it being their perfection to be suited to his own will. And the difference between us and Mr. Sterry, Dr. Twisse, &c. is not▪ Whether ⟨p. 117⟩God be Glorious in all his works, or they be perfect: For we say, that though mans sin be found upon Gods works, and that sin be none of his works, nor any means (properly so called) of Pleasing or Glorifying him, nor at all willed or caused by him, but hated and punished; yet he loseth none of his complacency or glory by it, but notwithstanding its malignity, shineth gloriously in the perfection of all his works.
§. 41. Yea, more we say, that men sin under his Disposing power, and that he will make use of their evil unto Good, and sin shall become an occasion of that Glory to God (as sickness to the Physician) of which it is no Cause or proper Means, nor of it self conduceth thereunto. Yea, and that no Act as an Act, how sinful soever, is done, but by Gods causation as he is the fountain of nature, and prime Motor: Yea, more; that all the Effects and Consequents of sin that are not sin it self, are under the Causal Government and disposal of God, who will attain his Ends in all.