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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.
A. I can show you, that you overthrown the Christian Religion by your Logic: For if this hold true, then the fore sight of Christ's Incarnation and Sufferings, &c. was no moral true cause of Gods Will to pardon Sin, and save Souls, to •hose under the Promise before the Incarnation.
A. I can shew you, that you overthrown the Christian Religion by your Logick: For if this hold true, then the fore sight of Christ's Incarnation and Sufferings, &c. was no moral true cause of Gods Will to pardon Sin, and save Souls, to •hose under the Promise before the Incarnation.
B. Your diversion turneth us from the matter, but advantageth you not at all. Would you bring it to deny so evident a Principle as this, that nothing can do nothing, nor cause nothing. It was not Christ's Body or actual Suffering, not yet existent, that caused Gods Will t• pardon Sinners. Nor had Gods Will any proper cause: But seeing God willed one thing to be the means of another, he willed that Christ's Incarnation and Death should in the fullness of time demonstrate his Justice, and make it agreeable to the ends of his Government to dispense with the Law of Innocency, ⟨p. 8⟩and to pardon Sin: And therefore (not Christ's Death it self, but) God's Decree of the Death of Christ Incarnate, was the cause of the Promise, and of the New Covenant made with Adam, and of the Salvation of Believers then. Which Will or Decree is called by some the interpellation or undertaking of the eternal Word.
B. Your diversion turneth us from the matter, but advantageth you not at all. Would you bring it to deny so evident a Principle as this, that nothing can do nothing, nor cause nothing. It was not Christ's Body or actual Suffering, not yet existent, that caused Gods Will t• pardon Sinners. Nor had Gods Will any proper cause: But seeing God willed one thing to be the means of another, he willed that Christ's Incarnation and Death should in the fulness of time demonstrate his Justice, and make it agreeable to the ends of his Government to dispence with the Law of Innocency,