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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.
235. Gods Law is Antecedent to our practice, and mediately ex parte sui bindeth us at once to all that we must do to the End of our Lives. As if a Master in the Morning command his servant his work till night. Therefore as if that servant purposely break his Spade or other Tools that he may not work, he is not therefore so disobliged as to be guiltless; even so when man by sin disableth himself to his commanded duty, the Law is not changed, but is still the same, nor is he thereby excused.
236. Here the Primary sin is that which contracted the Impotency: The Secondary sin is the Impotency it self, thus wilfully contracted and seated in the will. The third rank is the not doing of all that was first commanded, and the doing of all that was forbidden.
237. But if it be not only a Moral Vicious Impotency that is contracted (such as the habitual unwillingness in question) but a Physical Impotency (as if a man drunk himself stark mad, or blind, &c.) this is a sin (and the consequent acts and omissions) not simply in it self considered, but secundum quid, and participatively, as it partaketh of the first sin, which is described it self to be [a Voluntary forbidden act disabling us to future duty, and 1virtually containing a sinful life to the end.]
- 1That a necessity contracted by our own fault (as by drunkenness) excuseth not from guilt, see August. l. de Natur. & Grat. c. 67. & Aquin. n. 4. d. 50. q. 2. a. 1.