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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.
2. And the word [using] signifieth, sometime using by motion, as I do my pen; and sometime by ordination, and adjoining some concause, or fitting the receptivity of the patient to the effect as aforesaid; as we use; wind, water, dogs, hawks: Thus only sinners by sinning are Gods used instruments: supposing his natural concurse and support.
2. And the word [using] signifieth, sometime using by motion, as I do my pen; and sometime by ordination, and adjoyning some concause, or fitting the receptivity of the patient to the effect as aforesaid; as we use; wind, water, dogs, hawks: Thus only sinners by sinning are Gods used instruments: supposing his natural concurse and support.
And they are not his Instruments thus neither in the same sense as these creatures are ours: For their fierceness, craft, inclination, action, is good, and we do and may will it for our ends: But sin is not good; And therefore God willeth not it at all, but only the consequent of it, or effect: And that Effect is not Good, as it is the effect of sin, but as God setteth in, and causeth the same effect which a sinner causeth (as in generation per concubitum illicitum.) But when God willeth and causeth the effect, and foreseeth and permitteth the sinful Volition and act, which concurreth to that effect, such a sin is improperly called his used instrument or medium, but properly is none.
And they are not his Instruments thus neither in the same sence as these creatures are ours: For their fierceness, craft, inclination, action, is good, and we do and may will it for our ends: But sin is not good; And therefore God willeth not it at all, but only the consequent of it, or effect: And that Effect is not Good, as it is the effect of sin, but as God setteth in, and causeth the same effect which a sinner causeth (as in generation per concubitum illicitum.) But when God willeth and causeth the effect, and foreseeth and permitteth the sinful Volition and act, which concurreth to that effect, such a sin is improperly called his used instrument or medium, but properly is none.