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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.
549. So that the form of sin being Relative can have no Cause but that which causeth its fundamentum: and cannot possibly but result when that is laid.
550. It were an injury to God to feign him to make such a Law as should say, [Though thou hate me, see that that hatred be not Related formally as a breach of my Law,] or [I forbid thee not to commit Adultery, but only forbid that thy Adultery be quid prohibitum or a sin.] For if God forbid not the act, it cannot be a sin: and if he forbid it, it must needs be sin; And so of omissions.
551. They therefore that tell us, that sin is nothing, but a Privation, speak not satisfactorily, nor altogether truly. It is no substance indeed; nor any such Reality as Man cannot Cause without Gods Causing it (supposing his Universal Natural Support and Concurse.) But the thing forbidden is often Acts and Dispositions as well as Omissions: and the form of sin, is a Moral Relation, which hath so much reality as a Relation hath (if that be any). And that Relation hath a positive name; It is not only a meer Non-conformity, but also a Disconformity, becaused founded in 1Actual Volitions and Nolitions as forbidden, and not only in Omissions.
- 1See Dr. Wallis against the Lord Brooke of this, very well.