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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.
540. As Logic hath confounded us in most other cases by arbitrary unsuitable second notions (making us a Shoo not meet for the Foot,) so that it's easier to know Things without those unfit notions than with them; so hath it done here. Men may more easily know what sin is, and what it is to disobey a Law, and that either by doing what we should not, or by not doing what we are commanded, than they can know by what Logical or Metaphysical name it should be called: Whether a privation, or a relation, an act or no act, &c. But it is not only for Logicians that God made his Laws; nor is it only a Metaphysical Conscience that will accuse men or condemn them, and torment them for their sin.
540. As Logick hath confounded us in most other cases by arbitrary unsuitable second notions (making us a Shoo not meet for the Foot,) so that it's easier to know Things without those unfit notions than with them; so hath it done here. Men may more easily know what sin is, and what it is to disobey a Law, and that either by doing what we should not, or by not doing what we are commanded, than they can know by what Logical or Metaphysical name it should be called: Whether a privation, or a relation, an act or no act, &c. But it is not only for Logicians that God made his Laws; nor is it only a Metaphysical Conscience that will accuse men or condemn them, and torment them for their sin.
541. No Act merely as an Act in genere is forbidden of God. For the soul is an Active nature, and can no more cease all action, than to be: though it can forbear a particular act as to this object, and at this time. And God is the Cause of Acts as such.
541. No Act meerly as an Act in genere is forbidden of God. For the soul is an Active nature, and can no more cease all action, than to be: though it can forbear a particular act as to this object, and at this time. And God is the Cause of Acts as such.