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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.
L. No, not the Matter, but this is not to be called Merit.
R. If you will needs be the Master of Language, openly profess then that it is the Name that you contend about. Indeed Aquinas defendeth that which Vasquez seemeth to deny, that in God there is Distributive, though not Commutative Justice (quia à nullo accipit.) And that though God do all according to the good pleasure of his will, yet he doth all things Righteously, because his Will is the Rule of Justice, and he willeth what his Wisdom dictateth. And that he giveth himself his Due, in that he doth all to the glorifying of his goodness: and he giveth the creatures their due, in that he ordereth one for another, as its end, and the parts for the whole: yet he is not called a Debtor to any, because all are ordinated to Him: which Justice is called, The Condecency of his Goodness. And is there any thing to be blamed in all this? I am sure that English ears are so used to hear that God is Just, yea, that the Glory of his Justice is a great End of his Government, that good men will hardly endure you to deny it: Though yet through prejudice they hardly digest the name of that Merit or Rewardableness which is the object of that Justice; because of other mens abuse of the word, and some mens hard interpretation of it. But God the Righteous Judge will give the Crown of Righteousness (2 Tim. 4. 8.) not according to Names and Logical Notions, but mens works.
L. But are other Jesuits of Vasquez's mind, or many other Schoolmen of Aquinas his opinion? We commonly suppose them to give more to Merit.