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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.
C. But what say you to all the Texts that tell us, that God willed and caused that which wicked men did; as in the case of Pharaoh, Sihon, Rehoboam, Absalom, the death of Christ, and many others.
C. But what say you to all the Texts that tell us, that God willed and caused that which wicked men did; as in the case of Pharaoh, Sihon, Rehoboam, Absolom, the death of Christ, and many others.
B. One of the greatest over-sights of them that thus Object, is, that they distinguish not between the sin, and the effect of the sin; or the forbidden Will and Act of the Sinner as of him, and the reception of this Act in passo, in the recipient. God can many ways concur to the causing of the reception and the effect, without causing the Volition or Act as Agents by a specifying determination. Especially when Custom compriseth both in one name; dull wits are easily here deceived▪ As the words, Murder, Theft, Adultery, Drunkenness, &c. do signify both the Volition and Act of the Agent, and the Reception or Effect. Now God can many ways make the sinful Volition and Act of every such Sinner, to produce that effect which the word Murder, Theft, Adultery, Drunkenness, &c. connoteth or includeth, without causing the Volition or Act forbidden determiningly.
B. One of the greatest over-sights of them that thus Object, is, that they distinguish not between the sin, and the effect of the sin; or the forbidden Will and Act of the Sinner as of him, and the reception of this Act in passo, in the recipient. God can many ways concur to the causing of the reception and the effect, without causing the Volition or Act as Agents by a specifying determination. Especially when Custom comprizeth both in one name; dull wits are easily here deceived▪ As the words, Murder, Theft, Adultery, Drunkenness, &c. do signifie both the Volition and Act of the Agent, and the Reception or Effect. Now God can many ways make the sinful Volition and Act of every such Sinner, to produce that effect which the word Murder, Theft, Adultery, Drunkenness, &c. connoteth or includeth, without causing the Volition or Act forbidden determiningly.