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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.
R. There are many School Doctors so strict herein, that they will not grant that there is any such thing properly as Legal or Governing Justice in God. Ruiz citeth for this Argentin. 4. d. 46. q. 1. a. 1. Bassolis ibi q. 1. 1a. 1. Suarez (a Jesuite) de Just. Dei sect. 4. n. 8. Peasant. 1. p. q. 21. a. 1. disp. 1. concl. 2. But he thinketh that they differ but in words from others that assert Gods Legal Justice (vid•licet Scotus, Sotus, Rubellus, Lorca, Navarret.) Yet all agree, that God is (in some sense) Just. And Ruiz saith that Suarez (passim) maintaineth that Gods Promises are but naked assertions, by which he declareth his will to give the benefit. And Durandus 2. d. 27. q. 2. n. 15. faith that Gods promises signify not any obligation, but the mere disposition of Gods liberality. And Greg. Arim. 1. d. 17. q. 1. a. 2. saith, that the Crown of Righteousness is not a debt, but only of Gods free ordination. And Marsil. 2. q. 18. a. 4. absolutely denieth, that God is a Debtor, or doth any otherwise accept mens deserts, than by the free disposition of a gift. Scotus holdeth our acts are called Merit as relating to Gods free Covenant or Promise to reward them, and not otherwise, but he absolutely denieth yet that God is thereby ⟨p. 277⟩made our Debtor, 4. d. 46. Major. 2. d. 27. not only followeth him, but saith, God may deny Glory to good works; (but he meaneth as the rest.) Richard. 2. d. 27. q. 3. a. 2. ad 3. seemeth to deny even Debt upon the title of promise. Bon•vent. 2. d. 27. a. 2. q. 3. saith but that God is quodammodo, in some sort obliged to glorify them that love him. Ruiz who is against all this, and maketh Gods Promises to be proper promises and Covenants, and more than bare assertions, and that God is become a kind of Debtor by his Promise (and so it is not his Veracity only that is our security, as Suarez thinketh) yet holdeth, that It is but the Things promised that are Due or obliged to us, and that Gods obligation is properly to Himself: that he hath indeed true Governing or Legal Justice, but tanquam objectum Formale & primarium respicit universalissimum bonum & praestantissimum quod est Ipse: & tanquam Materiale & secundarium objectum respicit universal bonum totius mundi constantem ex omnibus creaturis, quod praeponit particularibus bonis singularum creaturarum.