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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.
621. He saith that the Universe would not be perfect, if there wer• perfect holiness and no sin, and so no pardon or punishment. But •• giveth us no proof, but confident assertion, at all. I need not say, th• It would be more perfect if there were no sin; It sufficeth me to say, tha• It would be as perfect: And so that it is not Necessary to the World perfection, that there be sin or Hell. God could have freely willed the contrary. And Gods Goodness could have been as fully manifested if i• ⟨p. 105⟩had so pleased him, and his Holiness too, without sin or Hell. It's unpleasing to me, that this good man pleadeth so hard against a necessity of Christs satisfaction for sin, (in another digression) and yet pleadeth as hard for a necessity of sin; As if it were more necessary to Gods Glory than Christ.
622. It is very observable in all this controversy, that he asserteth pag. 198. [That it's past all controversy, that neither God, nor the most sinful creature, do will any thing, but as Good. And that no man can be instigated to malice (or evil) but only to the Act which is evil; because he that is instigated, is instigated to do something. But to the evil of an act, no efficiency is necessary, but deficience only.] How far this is true or false, I have opened before. I here only note, that he confesseth that he that causeth the Act of sin, (which he saith God doth more than man) causeth all that is causable.
622. It is very observable in all this controversie, that he asserteth pag. 198. [That it's past all controversie, that neither God, nor the most sinful creature, do will any thing, but as Good. And that no man can be instigated to malice (or evil) but only to the Act which is evil; because he that is instigated, is instigated to do something. But to the evil of an act, no efficiency is necessary, but deficience only.] How far this is true or false, I have opened before. I here only note, that he confesseth that he that causeth the Act of sin, (which he saith God doth more than man) causeth all that is causable.