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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.
634. And here note, that when the name of the Effect or Passion connoteth the sinfulness of the Act, then it is less meet to say that God willeth it: As to say that he willeth that we be persecuted, murdered, slandered, belied, &c. But if any will so speak, they must mean only the Passion, as distinct from the action: And then the difference is but in nudo loquendi.
634. And here note, that when the name of the Effect or Passion connoteth the sinfulness of the Act, then it is less meet to say that God willeth it: As to say that he willeth that we be persecuted, murdered, slandered, belyed, &c. But if any will so speak, they must mean only the Passion, as distinct from the action: And then the difference is but in nudo loquendi.
635. To those that object that thus he maketh God the chief author of sin, the effect being more to be ascribed to the Principal Cause than to the instrument, he first ill-applieth some frivolous distinctions, and instanceth thus: [The hangman as the Judges instrument hangeth a man in malice or revenge: Ergo, the Judge much more, in revenge: Non sequitur.] Putting in Revenge which is but a Cause, as if it had been the Effect, which was in question.
635. To those that object that thus he maketh God the chief author of sin, the effect being more to be ascribed to the Principal Cause than to the instrument, he first ill-applyeth some frivolous distinctions, and instanceth thus: [The hangman as the Judges instrument hangeth a man in malice or revenge: Ergo, the Judge much more, in revenge: Non sequitur.] Putting in Revenge which is but a Cause, as if it had been the Effect, which was in question.
And thus [The Sword that killeth a man is not culpable: ergo, nor the striker: Non sequitur.] As if the question had been of the Negation of an effect, and not of the position of it.