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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.
517. All this much of Damnation then being merely the work of the sinner himself, so far as there is no Act of God in the execution, so far no man can prove any Positive Act of Volition or Decree.
517. All this much of Damnation then being meerly the work of the sinner himself, so far as there is no Act of God in the execution, so far no man can prove any Positive Act of Volition or Decree.
518. But 1. As God in these is the universal cause of Nature, and so of natural acts, 2. And as in other instances he actually further punisheth them, 3. And as he actually made that Law which made these penalties the sinners due; so far God hath a Positive Decree and Volition, that these persons shall be damned: And moreover, as improperly or morally his not sanctifying them, and not saving them is called his Act, and is really their penalty, even so may his not-willing to save or glorify them be called his Decree and will to damn them, if you will.
518. But 1. As God in these is the universal cause of Nature, and so of natural acts, 2. And as in other instances he actually further punisheth them, 3. And as he actually made that Law which made these penalties the sinners due; so far God hath a Positive Decree and Volition, that these persons shall be damned: And moreover, as improperly or morally his not sanctifying them, and not saving them is called his Act, and is really their penalty, even so may his not-willing to save or glorifie them be called his Decree and will to damn them, if you will.
519. By this time we are ready to answer our first question, What are the objects of these several acta of God, so far as connotatively we must call them several.