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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.
173. The grand Reasons why we cannot receive the Dominicans doctrine of predetermining premotion, are elsewhere given; I now name but these three, 1. Because (whatever vain talk is used to blind men) it maketh God the sole-total-first-necessitating cause of all the sin that is committed in the world, or can be. 2. It unavoidably destroyeth the Christian faith: For if God be really the said determining Cause of all lies and other sins in the world, then his Veracity which is the formal object of faith, is gone: And no mortal man can tell whether Prophets and Apostles are predetermined to speak true or false, nor when God moveth them to the one or the other: For to Call their motion by the name of Inspiration, will satisfy no man, that Gods Inspiration can do any more (at least to interest himself in the act) than his necessary physical premoving determination. 3. Because it feigneth God to damn most of the world for not-conquering God, who insuperably predetermined them to the forbidden act; that is, for not being Gods, or greater than God: And that he sent Christ to die only for those sins which he thus pre-moved us to irresistibly, and it was as impossible to forbear, as to touch the Moon.
173. The grand Reasons why we cannot receive the Dominicans doctrine of predetermining premotion, are elsewhere given; I now name but these three, 1. Because (whatever vain talk is used to blind men) it maketh God the sole-total-first-necessitating cause of all the sin that is committed in the world, or can be. 2. It unavoidably destroyeth the Christian faith: For if God be really the said determining Cause of all lyes and other sins in the world, then his Veracity which is the formal object of faith, is gone: And no mortal man can tell whether Prophets and Apostles are predetermined to speak true or false, nor when God moveth them to the one or the other: For to Call their motion by the name of Inspiration, will satisfie no man, that Gods Inspiration can do any more (at least to interest himself in the act) than his necessary physical premoving determination. 3. Because it feigneth God to damn most of the world for not-conquering God, who insuperably predetermined them to the forbidden act; that is, for not being Gods, or greater than God: And that he sent Christ to die only for those sins which he thus pre-moved us to irresistibly, and it was as impossible to forbear, as to touch the Moon.