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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.
342. The Jus vel Debitum, instituted by the Law, is twofold. 1. A Subditis: What shall be Due from the Subjects: the Debitum Officii. 2. Subditis: what shall be Due to the Subjects: viz. 1. Antecedently to their merits (which is 1. The act of our Governing Benefactor. 2. Or a Divider: such was the Law for dividing the Israelites inheritances.) 2. Consequently; which is by the Retributive part of the Law (commonly called the Sanction,) which is 1. By the Premiant part, what Reward shall be due: 2. By the Penal, what Punishment.
343. Accordingly Laws have several parts: 1. Precept and Prohibition, making Duty: 2. Retributive, 1. Premiant, 2. Penal; called Gods Promises and Threats: 3. And subservient or accidental; 1. Narratives Historical, Chronological, &c. 2. Pure Donations: 3. Prophesies; 4. Doctrinal, 5. Exhortatory, 6. Reprehensive, &c.
344. Though Debitum vel Jus facere, be the formal operation of a Law; (which is to be Fundamentum Relationis) yet the Act of the chief parts (preceptive or penal) is commonly called Obligation: And so many say that obligare aut ad obedientiam aut ad poenam is all the action of a Law. But Obligare is a Metaphor, and therefore in dispute to be laid by, or to give place to the proper terms: And the Premiant act is not properly called obligation; nor the penal act, save in a secondary notion, as he is •bligatus ad poenam ferendam, if judged, who is first Reus poenae, or to whom it is made Due by the Law.