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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.
And we have hitherto thought that Gods holy Wisdom and will is the Cause of his holy Law, and much more against sin than mans is: And that God willeth not, and causeth not the sin of man: And is it now come to •his, that sin is contrary indeed to our right reason, but not to Gods, because •e is no subject: You may next say, that Holiness is meet for man, but not •or God.
618. Pag. 197. Again he is at it, Bonum esse ut sint mala: Quia bonum est ut Deus finem sibi praefixum assequatur: At hoc sine intervent• mali & peccati nullo modo potest.
Repl. 1. It is not per peccatum ut medium, though not sine peccat•. 2. Interventus therefore implieth a falsehood. For in esse cognito sin is antecedent or presupposed to the way of glorifying Justice and Mercy upon sinners; sinners are the object: And consequently you must take it (as before proved) for antecedent to the Volition or simultaneous.
Repl. 1. It is not per peccatum ut medium, though not sine peccat•. 2. Interventus therefore implyeth a falshood. For in esse cognito sin is antecedent or presupposed to the way of glorifying Justice and Mercy upon sinners; sinners are the object: And consequently you must take it (as before proved) for antecedent to the Volition or simultaneous.