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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.
147. Indeed the word Permission is oft used as a complicate notion, signifying both the permission and the event permitted: But that's nothing to the nature of proper permission it self.
148. A man may be hindered, 1. Morally; and that 1. By Commands, 2. By Threats, 3. By Promise and persuasion; 4. By Gifts; 5. By terrifying stripes on himself or others. In all these respects God permitteth not sin, but hindereth it by them all.
148. A man may be hindered, 1. Morally; and that 1. By Commands, 2. By Threats, 3. By Promise and perswasion; 4. By Gifts; 5. By terrifying stripes on himself or others. In all these respects God permitteth not sin, but hindereth it by them all.
149. 2. Or a man may be hindered Physically. And that 1. By to•al restraint and disabling, 2. Or by lesser impediments which make not the act impossible, but difficult. God doth not always thus hinder sin, and therefore thus he permitteth it. He doth not disable the sinner, e. g. to lie: And he doth not always render it difficult to him. But it followeth not necessarily, that this will be done, because it's possible; no nor because it is easy or not difficult to be done.
149. 2. Or a man may be hindered Physically. And that 1. By to•al restraint and disabling, 2. Or by lesser impediments which make not the act impossible, but difficult. God doth not alwayes thus hinder sin, and therefore thus he permitteth it. He doth not disable the sinner, e. g. to lie: And he doth not alwayes render it difficult to him. But it followeth not necessarily, that this will be done, because it's possible; no nor because it is easie or not difficult to be done.