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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.
The second Crimination.
A. II. But that's not all; But you hold, That God eternally decreed mens sin; yea, all the sin of Men and Devils; some say, That he decreed to predetermine men insuperably to the forbidden Act; and the moderatest, that he *decreed the event, that Sin should come to pass ipso permittente quamvis non efficiente; or at least, that he decreed his permission of it.
A. II. But that's not all; But you hold, That God eternally decreed mens sin; yea, all the sin of Men and Devils; some say, That he decreed to predetermine men insuparably to the forbidden Act; and the moderatest, that he *decreed the event, that Sin should come to pass ipso permittente quamvis non efficiente; or at least, that he decreed his permission of it.
- *Vid. Episcopii Resp. ad qu. 64. qu. 33. pag. 32. •bi dicit, Deum decrevisse ut Judaei Christum e medio tolleren, ex praescientia quod id liber• voluntate, facturi essent, atque inde praedictiones certas natas esse.
B. I. The first sort are those few, whom I in the beginning renounced; of whom the Dominicans, and good Dr. Twice, and Rutherford his Follower (de providentia) are the chief. I easily confess to you, that God made the Law, and God made man, and God maketh the Objects, and God causeth the Act as a natural Act in genere, by a natural general concourse: And if it could be also proved, that God were the chief efficient Determiner of the Will, and that by necessitation to this Act or Object comparatively rather than to that, (e. g. that David willed the Acts which were Murder and Adultery,) I could never deny that God is the chief Author of the Sin. For the formal reason of Sin is Relative, viz. Its disconformity to the Law of God. And the Relation resulteth without any new Act or Agent, Posito fundamento & omni absoluto: And neither God nor Man do or can do more to cause the Relation. And Dr. Twice and Rutherford so far saw this, that the up-shot of all their Vindication is; 1. That God causeth not sin as sin, but as a means to his Glory. 2. That God is under no Law, (as we are) and therefore can be no Author of Sin. But, to the first I answer;