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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.
615. Next the Doctor assaulteth Durandus who thus argueth, Gods will followeth only his approving Knowledge. But he knoweth not sin approvingly; being of purer eyes, &c. He answereth, 1. God approveth that sin be, though he approve not sin. 2. God willeth the manifestation of his mercy and justice: Ergo, he willeth the existence of sin as that which is necessarily required to it.
To which I reply, 1. The first answer is unproved and false. God approveth not that sin be. If he did, few wicked men do more, as Esti•s saith: For it is not sin as sin or evil that they will, but that it be for other ends which seem good. 2. He phraseth it with his [ad qu•d necessario, &c.] as if God first willed this manifestation of his Justice, &c. as the end, and then sins existence as the means (yea, the necessary means): But this is false, as I have fully showed. 1. And his own opinion should confute it, that maketh one Decree only de mediis: And this ⟨p. 103⟩particular Manifestation being some Acts of God, and not God himself, •or the Complacency of his Will, must needs be part of the media ad finem ••timum. 2. And indeed sins existence is not a necessary means willed for •ods glory: but it is a presupposed mischief, our Deliverance from which •• punishment for it, is willed for his glory: It is indeed necessary, but ••ly necessitate existentiae in esse praecognito as a foreseen evil, and so pre•pposed to those acts of God which are the Means of his glory.
To which I reply, 1. The first answer is unproved and false. God approveth not that sin be. If he did, few wicked men do more, as Estis saith: For it is not sin as sin or evil that they will, but that it be for other ends which seem good. 2. He phraseth it with his [ad qud necessario, &c.] as if God first willed this manifestation of his Justice, &c. as the end, and then sins existence as the means (yea, the necessary means): But this is false, as I have fully shewed. 1. And his own opinion should confute it, that maketh one Decree only de mediis: And this