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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.
2. Gods Glory is our End, and to forbear things prohibited is but the means: If sin conduce as much as Christ and Holiness to Gods Glory, why may we not desire it sub ratione medii, though not as praeceptum? We must desire that which is most conducible to Gods Glory.
3. Though God be under no Law, his Perfection of Nature and Will is the fountain of all Laws, and instead of a Law to him. And we must be Holy because our God is Holy.
4. It is still false that sin is any Medium to Gods Glory, or desirable, or hath any good.
5. God is Good and delighteth to do good. And he is the Just Ruler 1of the World: And I would not have Kings take such Justice for a pattern as you describe, as if God vehemently forbade sin, and sent his Son, and Spirit, and Ministers as an Army against it into the World, and will da men for it for ever, and yet willeth and causeth it, as summè conducibils