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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.
The third Crimination.
C. At least they make his Covenant changeable, as condemning a man one day whom it justified the day before.
B. Not at all. The Covenants Action is physically none, but only such as some call a Reputative Act; that is, per modum signi; and as ⟨p. 213⟩the Fundamentum causeth the Relation. Gods Legislation was a real Action: But the Law made doth not Act, at all; But improperly, morally, or metaphorically is said to Act, when it doth not; what Action doth the sign post perform? or the post and hand at a cross way? or all the Letters in all your Library which teach you the greatest mysteries? none at all? It is you that are Active on them. What Action do millions of Eggs at the Indies perform every time your Hen layeth? And yet they then have a new Relation of Similitude. So Gods Law (nor Mans neither) is not at all changed, while ut instrumentum morale per modum signi & fundamenti, it condemneth the Infidel, and justifieth the Believer, no more than when it justifieth him at conversion whom it condemned before. The change is only (really) in the person.