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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.
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 2to his Ends, and saith [It is not evil to me, though it be to you. I'll ••• meant you for doing it, though it was by my Will and predetermination.] And what Justice should Kings rather imitate than Gods?
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 forbad 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 2to his Ends, and saith [It is not evil to me, though it be to you. I'le ••• ment you for doing it, though it was by my Will and predetermination.] And what Justice should Kings rather imitate than Gods?
- 1Of which vid. Gibieus at la•ge.
- 2August. de Nat. & Grat. c. 25. fol. 314. Non hoc eis dicimus quod sibi iste (Pelagius) opposuit, ut esset Causa Misericordiae Dei, necessarium fuisse peccatum: Utinam non fuisset miseria, ne ista esset misericordia necessaria. Id. ibid. cap. 31. Et altius Dei consilium fateor me ignorare, cur etiam ipsam superbiam, quae in re••e factis animo insidiatur humano, non cito Deus sanet, pro qua sananda illi piae animae cum lacrymis & magnis gemitibus supplicant, ut ad am superandam & quodammodo calcandam & obterendam dextram conantibus porrigat. Even Vasquez the Jesuit saith of Gods denying men grace, and of non-entities that God willeth them, thus [Non-esse alicujus rei secundum se quatnus malum quoddam ipsius rei est, non placet Deo—Sed sub alia ratione placere potest; nec enim in eo est omnis ratio