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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.
533. III. It is certain that Governing Providence by doing good doth set before men that which they make an occasion of all their evil: Every thing is turned into sin by sinners, †and to the unclean all things are unclean, through the uncleanness of their own minds and consciences: As to the pure and holy all things are pure and sanctified. Bad stomachs corrupt the wholesomest food. All Gods mercies are abused to sin.
533. III. It is certain that Governing Providence by doing good doth set before men that which they make an occasion of all their evil: Every thing is turned into sin by sinners, †and to the unclean all things are unclean, through the uncleanness of their own minds and consciences: As to the pure and holy all things are pure and sanctified. Bad stomachs corrupt the wholsomest food. All Gods mercies are abused to sin.
534. It is certain that God fore-knew this: And yet that he is no way obliged to deny men life, or take it away, lest they abuse it, or deny men all those mercies, or remove them, which he foreseeth that they will turn to sin.
535. IV. It is certain that God often concurreth to the causing of the very same effect which sin also causeth; and so is as a concause of it with sin: And this effect is so near to the Act of sin, as that the sin it self is oft called by its name as if it were its nearest matter (which it is not.) And this is the occasion of the Great mistake of men in this case, that canno distinguish. Of which more anon in the instances.