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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.
Indeed he saith, that this Justice in God, is that [Quae solo natur• lumine demonstrari potest: ac proinde nullam supponit liberam Dei promissionem aut pactum, nullumque supernaturalem concursum aut gratiam.] But this is mere confusion by ambiguous words. These men talk as if they considered not, that Creation was a free act of God, and made man a Law in the Nature of himself and the circumstant creatures; And in this Law of Nature is a signification of Gods will to do good to the good, and reward the obedient, and this is a Natural promise. There could be no obedience, and so no merits, were there no Law: And if there be a Law of Nature, (and so God even by making us Rational free Governable Creatures was himself our Governor), these things supposed to be done by the very act of Creating, it is a contradiction to say that God is our Governor, and not a Just Governor, (being perfect as he is God) or to be Just, and yet not Resolved to use the obedient better than the disobedient. To be Governor, is to be the Orderer of Moral Agents: And what Moral Order is there, where the good and bad are not differenced in retributions? But the Papists conceits of all Promises to Adam and his merits being merely supernatural, confound them in many such dispu•ati••s.
Indeed he saith, that this Justice in God, is that [Quae solo natur• lumine demonstrari potest: ac proinde nullam supponit liberam Dei promissionem aut pactum, nullumque supernaturalem concursum aut gratiam.] But this is meer confusion by ambiguous words. These men talk as if they considered not, that Creation was a free act of God, and made man a Law in the Nature of himself and the circumstant creatures; And in this Law of Nature is a signification of Gods will to do good to the good, and reward the obedient, and this is a Natural promise. There could be no obedience, and so no merits, were there no Law: And if there be a Law of Nature, (and so God even by making us Rational free Governable Creatures was himself our Governour), these things supposed to be done by the very act of Creating, it is a contradiction to say that God is our Governour, and not a Just Governour, (being perfect as he is God) or to be Just, and yet not Resolved to use the obedient better than the disobedient. To be Governour, is to be the Orderer of Moral Agents: And what Moral Order is there, where the good and bad are not differenced in retributions? But the Papists conceits of all Promises to Adam and his merits being meerly supernatural, confound them in many such dispuatis.