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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.
349. Gods will called Legislative, or Governing is ever fulfilled in strict sense, that is, So much as is Gods part and the Laws part to do, is ever done: e. g. God saith [Perfect obedience, &c. shall be Adams duty] and it is done: It is his Duty whether he will or not. He saith [To steal shall be sin] and it is sin. He saith [He that believeth shall have right to Justification and Glory, and he that believeth not shall be Filius mortis, that is, Death and Hell shall be his Due] and so it is. Thus strictly all Gods Will is done.
349. Gods will called Legislative, or Governing is ever fulfilled in strict sence, that is, So much as is Gods part and the Laws part to do, is ever done: e. g. God saith [Perfect obedience, &c. shall be Adams duty] and it is done: It is his Duty whether he will or not. He saith [To steal shall be sin] and it is sin. He saith [He that believeth shall have right to Justification and Glory, and he that believeth not shall be Filius mortis, that is, Death and Hell shall be his Due] and so it is. Thus strictly all Gods Will is done.
350. But in the secondary remote sense every sin violateth the Will of God, by breaking his Law: For when he saith [Obedience shall be thy duty;] we use to say, It is Gods will that we should obey him: And so when we do not obey him, we are said to Violate his will. But this is but metonymically: For that which is Gods will indeed is but that we shall be bound to obey (whether we do or not:) And the event, whether we shall or not de facto, is not at all determined by the Law.
350. But in the secondary remote sence every sin violateth the Will of God, by breaking his Law: For when he saith [Obedience shall be thy duty;] we use to say, It is Gods will that we should obey him: And so when we do not obey him, we are said to Violate his will. But this is but metonymically: For that which is Gods will indeed is but that we shall be bound to obey (whether we do or not:) And the event, whether we shall or not de facto, is not at all determined by the Law.