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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.
154. But it is also confessed, that when by great sin these means themselves are forfeited, some of them are oft-times withdrawn or not given: And so some are without that Teaching, those mercies or those corrections which others have: But yet they are still under a Law of Grace.
155. And it is still supposed that God as the first Cause of Nature, upholdeth man in the Nature which he gave him; and concurreth with it as the first Mover and Universal Cause: And therefore that mans Inclination to Felicity, Truth and Goodness which is Natural, doth continue. Otherwise it is confessed, that Permission would infer sin materially, but no sin formally, if by permission be meant Gods withdrawing Reason, Freewill, or executive power.
155. And it is still supposed that God as the first Cause of Nature, upholdeth man in the Nature which he gave him; and concurreth with it as the first Mover and Universal Cause: And therefore that mans Inclination to Felicity, Truth and Goodness which is Natural, doth continue. Otherwise it is confessed, that Permission would inferr sin materially, but no sin formally, if by permission be meant Gods withdrawing Reason, Freewill, or executive power.
156. But I easily confess, that if the Dominicans predetermining Premotion *in sinful actions could be proved, that would certainly infer the event of sin; And if God decreed so to pre-determine the will, sin may be fore known in that decree. And if Scotus or the rest had been of that mind, they had never omitted that easy solution of the Case, How God fore-knoweth sin? But this I have elsewhere confuted, and shall add a little here.