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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. And if it were but the Act that existed, doth not Gods Law make it sin, by forbidding it, and so cause the Essence?
C. Yes.
B. And if you say that God willeth the existence of the form of Sin, why say you that he doth not cause it? Is not his Will effective? or is it any more contrary to his Holiness to cause it, than to will or love it?
C. He causeth the existence, but not the form or existence.
B. What juggling is this in such tremendous matters? 1. What is it to cause the form, but to cause that it exist. To cause it to be, is all the causing that it can have. 2. And you confess that Gods Law, by forbidding it, maketh it sin in specie when it existeth. Remember that you say that it is not only the matter, but the form of sin, which God willeth and causeth to exist. And is it not a contradiction to call it evil, and