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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.
554. The conceit that making sin a mere nothing, doth seem to justify God as not Causing it, is a mere vanity. For, 1. It justifieth the sinner more; who no more is the Cause of nothing than God. 2. Either man is able to do that Something or Act which sin is the privation of, without any other Power than he hath, or not. If he be, then even the ⟨p. 88⟩Act of sin is not imputable to God: If he be not, then every sin is like our not making of a Sun, or Moon, or World: which if it be a culpable defect, they make God the first deficient.
554. The conceit that making sin a meer nothing, doth seem to justifie God as not Causing it, is a meer vanity. For, 1. It justifieth the sinner more; who no more is the Cause of nothing than God. 2. Either man is able to do that Something or Act which sin is the privation of, without any other Power than he hath, or not. If he be, then even the ⟨p. 88⟩Act of sin is not imputable to God: If he be not, then every sin is like our not making of a Sun, or Moon, or World: which if it be a culpable defect, they make God the first deficient.
555. He that would see more of this question of the essence of sin, may read Rada lib. 2. contr. 16. (who first ingenuously confesseth that Tho. and Scotus differ but in words and not in sense, and then layeth down eleven conclusions of little use.) And Marius Scribonius Cosmo. disp. 18. Scotus in 2. d. 37. Bonavent. in 2. d. 35. dub. 6. Henric. Quodl. 1. qu. 25. Almain. Moral. tract. 3. cap. 17. Richard. in 2. d. 34. ar. 1. qu. 7. Alex. Alleys. 2. q. 94. memb. 2. Durand. 2. dis. 31. q. 2. Medin. 12. q. 71. ar. 6. Specially Vasquez 12. disp. 95. cap. 9. Guil. Camerar. Scot. Disput. Philos. Part. 1. Mor. q. 3. pag. 162, &c. Argent. in 1. d. 35. q. 1. ar. 2. Gabriel Biel 2. d. 36. q. unica. Valent. 1. 2. d. 2. q. 14. p. 3, &c. Suarez 1. 2. tract. de act. hum. d. 2. sect. 2. Azor. li. 4. c. 24. Tanner. 1. 2. disp. 2. q. 5. dub. 2. & 3. & disp. 4. q. 1. dub. 1. Vega in Trident. 6. c. 39. & li. 14. c. 13. Cordub. l. 3. q. 10. & Cajet. Zumel. Curiel, & alios in 1. 2. q. 19. ar. 4. & q. 71. ar. 6. And, who is usually sounder than most of them, Lombard himself Dist. 35. & Ripalda opening him and citing others dist. 34, 35.