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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.
628. His next instance is of Christs death, of which I said enough before: But 1. He understandeth his adversaries as ascribing only the Consequents ⟨p. 107⟩of Crucifixion to Gods will; which is his mistake: It is Crucifixion it self passivè sumpta which they ascribe to it (some of them at least.) And let men too wise against God deride it as much as they will, God can will and Love that Christ be Crucified, and yet hate and not will the will and act of the Crucifiers, but only foresee it, as aforesaid. And let them jeer God as Idle or asleep, if he neither will nor effectually nill the sin; we will believe it to be his perfection and liberty, which they so deride. 2. And whereas he addeth that Active Verbs are used as Gen. 45. Misit me Deus, Isa. 53. Deus voluit eum conterere, Zech. 13. Ego percutiam Pastorem: and God delivered Christ to death: I answer, It is too too gross to persuade us hence that any of these Texts say that God willeth the sinners will or Act. [God sent me] speaketh Gods act, that is, his disposal of the effects and consequents of them: But doth this signify, [God willed your malice or your act?] God did bruise Christ; which signifieth that he was a concause of his death: but not that he willed or Caused the Jews to will or act his death. And so of the rest.
628. His next instance is of Christs death, of which I said enough before: But 1. He understandeth his adversaries as ascribing only the Consequents ⟨p. 107⟩of Crucifixion to Gods will; which is his mistake: It is Crucifixion it self passivè sumpta which they ascribe to it (some of them at least.) And let men too wise against God deride it as much as they will, God can will and Love that Christ be Crucified, and yet hate and not will the will and act of the Crucifiers, but only foresee it, as aforesaid. And let them jeer God as Idle or asleep, if he neither will nor effectually nill the sin; we will believe it to be his perfection and liberty, which they so deride. 2. And whereas he addeth that Active Verbs are used as