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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.
B. I pray you then study it, and tell me, if God be not to be blasphemed as Idle, for such a total Non-agency or Free-suspension of his own Acts as to all such possibles; why should you call him Idle, if by the same Wisdom and Free-will he only suspend some degree of his co-operation with man in the case of sinning? And if God freely decree that man shall be made a free Agent, able (by Gods common generical concurse as the cause of nature) to determine or suspend his own Volitions, without any predetermining efficiency of God. If God will delight himself in making such a Creature, will you dare to say that he is Idle, because he moveth him not in another manner? you will not so reproach a Watchmaker, for not moving the Watch all day with his finger.
C. I confess I cannot answer that: But how then is God the Governor of the World, if so much sin be done without his Will and Operation.
B. The Work of a Governor, as such is only, 1. By Legislation, to make the Subjects Duty. 2. And by Judgment to try and decide the case of each Subject, whether he do that Duty. 3. And to see to the execution of that Judgment. But not to be the determining cause of all the Subjects Volitions and Actions.