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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.
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.
619. He urgeth, Oportet haereses esse, ut qui probati sunt manifesti fiant.
Answ. That neither meaneth that men ought to be Heretics, nor yet that God loveth, willeth or approveth that there be heresies: But only 1. God decreeth to manifest the difference between the sound Christians and the rest: 2. And he foreseeth that there will be heresies. 3. Therefore he decreeth to try them by the occasion of those heresies which he foreseeth (and hateth.) The same is the case of all trial by persecutions: And God willeth not the sin of active persecution, but only the effect or passive part. So that the oportet (by your own confession of it) signifieth no more than a Logical necessitas consequentiae, which foreknowledge without Volition will infer.
Answ. That neither meaneth that men ought to be Hereticks, nor yet that God loveth, willeth or approveth that there be heresies: But only 1. God decreeth to manifest the difference between the sound Christians and the rest: 2. And he foreseeth that there will be heresies. 3. Therefore he decreeth to try them by the occasion of those heresies which he foreseeth (and hateth.) The same is the case of all tryal by persecutions: And God willeth not the sin of active perecution, but only the effect or passive part. So that the oportet (by your own confession of it) signifieth no more than a Logical necessitas consequentiae, which oreknowledge without Volition will inferr.