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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
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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.
633. To Gibieuf and others saying that God acteth not by sin as an instrument, and willeth it not, but the effects; he answereth that It's absurd, because the sin it self is castigatory, and hath such like effects; and therefore God need not will that effect as after it. But all this is from the fore-noted confusion: It is not only the distant effect, but the very immediate effect, which is the Act it self ut recipitur in passo, which God sometime is said to Will. As he willed that Jobs Cattle were taken away, and that Christ were killed, and that Malchus ear be cut off, and that Paul be scourged, and smitten on the mouth, and that the Apostles were oft imprisoned, &c. And yet God only foreseeth but willeth not that will and act of the agent, which he forbiddeth.