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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.
And as God is said in Nature to make sin punishable, in that he hath so formed Nature, that sin shall bring suffering in and with it (as poison brings pain and death); so in Nature he hath made our duty and holiness Rewardable, in forming man so, that health, peace and happiness shall be in and after it. Prov. 9. 12. If thou be wise, thou art wise for thy self. 5. The Light of Nature teacheth Parents, Masters, Princes and all Governors to take Goodness to be Rewardable, and Crimes to be punishable: And nothing is more universally approved by the common notices of humane nature than Justice, or abhorred than Injustice. Nature saith as 2 Sam. 23. 31. He that ruleth over men must be just: And as Isa. 10. 1. Woe to them that decree unrighteous decrees: And as Prov. 17. 13. Whoso ⟨p. 233⟩rewardeth evil for good, evil shall not depart from his house: Conscience will rebuke him that rewardeth evil to him that deserved it not, Psal. 7. 4. The better any man is, the more he is for Justice, and abhorreth the unjust, (and Alexander Severus, and Antonine, and such Just Princes and Judges, are honoured by all Subjects and Historians.) And as all Power is of God, and Rulers are but his Officers, (Rom. 13. 4, 5, 6.) so their Righteous Government is but the inferior part of Gods own Government, (as the King governeth by his Judges and Justices): And therefore it is God that Rewardeth and Punisheth by them. And indeed by the same reason that men deny a Reward to duty (the faultiness being pardoned through Christ) they would infer, that there is no Punishment for sin: But God saith, Isa. 3. 10, 11. Say to the Righteous It shall be well with him, and say to the wicked It shall be ill with him. He will plentifully reward the proud doers, Psal. 31. 23