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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.
§. 42. Therefore we differ but in this, Whether God get not all that glory which Mr. St. floridly describeth, notwithstanding sin, or on supposition of it as barely permitted (negatively, but with a Decree or Volition of all the good consequents occasioned by it,) rather than by sin it self, as a willed, designed effect of his own necessitating▪ Negations, and in the positive part of the acts as circumstantiated, of his determining premotion? Whether mans permitted sin, be any of Gods works? And whether Gods glory be not rather non obstante peccato, and also by occasion of it, supposed to be mans work only; and by all the good consequents caused by God, than by the sin it self as a Means conducible, or a Cause?
§. 43. For we deny not, that God could have ▪prevented all sin if he had so resolved, and yet we believe not that such a permission is equivalent to a necessitating Motion, or Privation, as Mr. Sterry would persuade us: To make a creature no better than such as can do good if he will, and can be willing, (with a decree to make many willing,) is much different from making the creature bad, and then condemning him to Hell for being so, as an act of Justice. Yet we doubt not, but the Divine Light will shortly give us all a fuller discovery of that which shall vindicate the Wisdom, Goodness and Justice of God, in his Government of man, than yet the wisest mortals have.
§. 43. For we deny not, that God could have ▪prevented all sin if he had so resolved, and yet we believe not that such a permission is equivalent to a necessitating Motion, or Privation, as Mr. Sterry would perswade us: To make a creature no better than such as can do good if he will, and can be willing, (with a decree to make many willing,) is much different from making the creature bad, and then condemning him to Hell for being so, as an act of Justice. Yet we doubt not, but the Divine Light will shortly give us all a fuller discovery of that which shall vindicate the Wisdom, Goodness and Justice of God, in his Government of man, than yet the wisest mortals have.