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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.
Answ. The first is only a Prophecy, and a penal effect of sin, and nothing of Gods Willing or Causing sin. And so is the second: Though God can send afflicters by the ways before mentioned, without willing their sin. The third speaketh only of a penal permission of sin. And the rest all speak only of Gods penal permission of the sin, and his decreeing and foretelling the effects of it, and his occasioning the sinner to take one sinful object (not as such, but) rather than another.
Answ. The first is only a Prophesie, and a penal effect of sin, and nothing of Gods Willing or Causing sin. And so is the second: Though God can send afflicters by the wayes before mentioned, without willing their sin. The third speaketh only of a penal permission of sin. And the rest all speak only of Gods penal permission of the sin, and his decreeing and foretelling the effects of it, and his occasioning the sinner to take one sinful object (not as such, but) rather than another.
603. As the Wind hath its natural course, and so hath the Water, and the Miller Causeth neither of them, but supposing them, doth so set his Mill to Wind and Water that by the mere receptive qualification of the patient, they shall fulfil his will, and he is the Cause of the effect, viz. that they turn his Mill and grind his Corn: so is it easy for God to use mens sins (permitted) to his ends without willing them*.
603. As the Wind hath its natural course, and so hath the Water, and the Miller Causeth neither of them, but supposing them, doth so set his Mill to Wind and Water that by the meer receptive qualification of the patient, they shall fulfil his will, and he is the Cause of the effect, viz. that they turn his Mill and grind his Corn: so is it easie for God to use mens sins (permitted) to his ends without willing them*.