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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. 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.
C. It is so with man, because he can do no more: but not with God.
B. Indeed God governeth all mere Naturals and Brutes, by physical motion, as Engines are moved (as a Clock or Watch) by natural necessitation: And so he doth the mere naturals of man; (As his Concoction, Pulse, circulation of Blood, generation in the Womb, &c.) But God having made man an Intellectual free Agent, ruleth him as such, agreeably to his nature; even by moral Agency, by Laws and Judgment: And this is that Regency of which we speak. If you believe not that ⟨p. 35⟩God is thus the moral Ruler of Mankind, or King of the World; you deny him to be God, and overthrow all Religion and Morality.
B. Indeed God governeth all meer Naturals and Bruits, by physical motion, as Engins are moved (as a Clock or Watch) by natural necessitation: And so he doth the meer naturals of man; (As his Concoction, Pulse, circulation of Blood, generation in the Womb, &c.) But God having made man an Intellectual free Agent, ruleth him as such, agreeably to his nature; even by moral Agency, by Laws and Judgment: And this is that Regency of which we speak. If you believe not that ⟨p. 35⟩God is thus the moral Ruler of Mankind, or King of the World; you deny him to be God, and overthrow all Religion and Morality.