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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 know you say that neither God nor man loveth sin as sin: But whether Dr. Twice & Rutherford say not in equipollent terms, that God is the greatest Lover of Sin in all the world, judge by their confuted words in the former Book. 1. They deny not (nor can do) that Love and Voliti•• in God are all one. Gods Love is not a Passion, but his Will. 2. They say, that God willeth that sin exist. 3. And that as summè & unicè conducible to his Glory. 4. And that this great conducibility is a great good. 5. That God is pleased finally in what he willeth antecedently. 6. And that as God is infinitely above man in his Being, so is he in the greatness, and power, and efficacy of his Volitions. 7. And that man loveth not, nor willeth not evil as evil, or sin as sin; but for inferior good infinitely below Gods Glory, for which he willeth its existence. And is not this to say that he is the greatest Lover of it that is?
B. I know you say that neither God nor man loveth sin as sin: But whether Dr. Twisse & Rutherford say not in equipollent terms, that God is the greatest Lover of Sin in all the world, judge by their confuted words in the former Book. 1. They deny not (nor can do) that Love and Voliti•• in God are all one. Gods Love is not a Passion, but his Will. 2. They say, that God willeth that sin exist. 3. And that as summè & unicè conducible to his Glory. 4. And that this great conducibility is a great good. 5. That God is pleased finally in what he willeth antecedently. 6. And that as God is infinitely above man in his Being, so is he in the greatness, and power, and efficacy of his Volitions. 7. And that man loveth not, nor willeth not evil as evil, or sin as sin; but for inferior good infinitely below Gods Glory, for which he willeth its existence. And is not this to say that he is the greatest Lover of it that is?
C. Yet it sticks with me, that God should be the Omnipotent Governor of the World, and all Sin which is the common work of the World, should be without or against his Will: Providence is wronged by this.