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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.
And if God will and decree the Act not only as an Act in general, but with all its modes and circumstances, he undeniably willeth or decreeth the form of sin, or the immediate necessary cause of it; which in the case of efficiency will more evidently appear.
C. God willeth not the Form, that is, sin as sin, and yet he willeth the Act with all its circumstances.
B. I have told you before that a wicked man may will sin in matter and form, and yet not will it as sin. To will it as sin, is to take the form of sin as such to be good, and so to be the ratio volendi; which few if any Sinners ever do. But to will both matter and form in one, not as the formal reason of Volition, but making total sin, the matter chosen as a means to some other desired end, this is possible for a very wicked man to do: But I think the ordinary case of Sinners, is not at all to will the form of sin, but cast that by, and to will the matter of it, for the carnal pleasure or inferior good which it seemeth to tend to. Now this excuseth not their will from wickedness, that they will not malum sub ratione mali, or sin because it is sin, but for another end. And shall we charge God of willing sin as the wicked do?