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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.
SECT. XVII. Of Gods Causing, and Decreeing Sin.
526. But because it is the avoiding of Gods Causing and Willing sin 1which is a great reason of these Controversies, I shall say somewhat more particularly of that. About which there are various Opinions.
526. BUt because it is the avoiding of Gods Causing and Willing sin 1which is a great reason of these Controversies, I shall say somewhat more particularly of that. About which there are various Opinions.
- 1Of too many such enquirers it may be said with Augustine, de Utilit. Cred•ndi cap. 18. Dumb nimis quaerunt unde sit malum, nihil reperi•nt nisi malum. Obj. Omnis determinatio di•ina est immutabilis: Omnia siu•t Deo determinante: Ergo omnia siunt immut•hiliter. Respondet M•lan•th. Ad maj. Est immut•bil•s necessitate conseq•entiae. Ad minor. Dissimil•s est determinatio in bonis & malis actionibus: Mala siunt, 1. Deo praesciente & non impedi•nte, non autem adjuvante vel impellente: Item, Deo sustentante naturam & suum opus: Item, Deo eventus certos decernente: Strigel. in Melancth. pag. 296. Carbo Compend. Thom. 1. q. 19. a. 9. Malum ut malum nullo apptitu potest appeti nisi per aidns. Deus ullo modo vult malum Culpae—Deus neque vult siri malum, que non vult, sed permitti. Ruiz de praedesin. Tr. 2. disp. 13. §. 3, 4. would prove a decree to permit mortal sin in the unjust and just ex destitutione & circumstantiis. And d. 16. §. 3. he telleth us of many ways by which God maketh sin the occasion of his Grace without causing or willing sin, in form or nearest matter.