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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.
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.
351. Therefore if it were proved that God did Decree one thing, and command the contrary, it would not prove two contrary wills in God; nor is there any great show of a contradiction in it. For to say [I forbid Judas to hang himself] and [I decree that he shall hang himself] are no contradictions; It is but to say, [It shall be his Duty to preserve his life] and [Eventually he shall not preserve it.] All that is a mans Duty doth not come to pass: And to determine of Duty, is not to say, It shall come to pass. Otherwise Gods word were false whenever man sinned. Nay in reality, Augustine (truly) judged that by Gods Law Hell was Due to Paul unconverted, and yet then he was a chosen Vessel, and God Decreed to save him. He thought that Perseverance was the Duty of some that after fell away, and that Heaven was their Due on condition of perseverance till they fell away, (though not presently to be possessed;) and yet that God decreed that ipso permittente eventually they should fall away and perish.
351. Therefore if it were proved that God did Decree one thing, and command the contrary, it would not prove two contrary wills in God; nor is there any great shew of a contradiction in it. For to say [I forbid Judas to hang himself] and [I decree that he shall hang himself] are no contradictions; It is but to say, [It shall be his Duty to preserve his life] and [Eventually he shall not preserve it.] All that is a mans Duty doth not come to pass: And to determine of Duty, is not to say, It shall come to pass. Otherwise Gods word were false whenever man sinned. Nay in reality, Augustine (truly) judged that by Gods Law Hell was Due to Paul unconverted, and yet then he was a chosen Vessel, and God Decreed to save him. He thought that Perseverance was the Duty of some that after fell away, and that Heaven was their Due on condition of perseverance till they fell away, (though not presently to be possessed;) and yet that God decreed that ipso permittente eventually they should fall away and perish.