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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.
596. And if you suppose a man so inclined to Murder or Adultery as that he will exercise it on the next most provoking object, if God now did Cause the Act, as exercised on a forbidden object, compared with another ⟨p. 96⟩it were to Cause the sin. But if he only be the moral Cause that he e. g. kill Judas rather than Peter, this is not to Cause sin: For to choose Judas rather than Peter for the object, is no sin: For, as I said, God c•• do it only by removing Peter, and Willing that he shall be preserved.
597. Suppose a King that hath made Laws against Murder foreknow that a Robber is waiting in such a Road for a prey, and that a Traitor broke out of Prison will go that way, and so will be robbed and killed, He may will or desire the Death of the Traitor as a punishment; He may restra•• some that would travail that way before him; and may restrain some that would lay hold on the Robber, or drive him away, that so this Traitor may be killed: And yet only Permit, and not Will at all, the Robbers Will or Ac• as it is Agentis, but punish him for it, and hate it, and Will only the effect.
597. Suppose a King that hath made Laws against Murder forekno• that a Robber is waiting in such a Road for a prey, and that a Traytor broke out of Prison will go that way, and so will be rob'd and kill'd, He may will or desire the Death of the Traytor as a punishment; He may restra•• some that would travail that way before him; and may restrain some that would lay hold on the Robber, or drive him away, that so this Traytor may be killed: And yet only Permit, and not Will at all, the Robbers Will or Ac• as it is Agentis, but punish him for it, and hate it, and Will only the effect.