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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.
536. V. And it is certain, that God as the Governor of the World, doth do much good by the occasion of mens sin. But this is not to turn the sin it self into good.
536. V. And it is certain, that God as the Governour of the World, doth do much good by the occasion of mens sin. But this is not to turn the sin it self into good.
537. VI. And to these five operations of God, I add, as to his Volitions, that all this which he doth, he willeth or decreeth to do. And he hath no contrary will at all.
538. But that which we deny is, that He is any proper cause of the sin it self, efficient or deficient, culpable or not culpable, Physical or Moral; For the opening of which we must enquire what sin is, and what goeth to its being or constitution.
539. All grant that God is our Ruler by a Law, and also our ultimate End as he is Optimus & Amabilissimus, and that he is our absolute Owner: And that as rational free agents we that are his own, are also his Subjects and Beneficiaries, and made capable of Loving him as our ultimate end, and of obeying his Laws: And that sin is our Disobedience to these Laws, with our denying God our selves as his Own, and withholding or perverting the Love which we owe him as our End.