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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.
Now if God cause not that sin which is a punishment to our selves, he causeth not that which is a punishment to others; And yet supposing it, he maketh it a punishment to us and them, on several accounts.
639. But though God cause not the sin, yet when he hath before in his Law threatened to withhold his grace and spirit if we sin, without which grace and spirit we will sin, If God now for former sin do deny us, or withhold that grace or help which we need to keep us out of it, he is morally and improperly said to cause that sin as a punishment, because that penally he refuseth or forbeareth to save us from it, and so permitteth it (as is said.)
639. But though God cause not the sin, yet when he hath before in his Law threatned to withhold his grace and spirit if we sin, without which grace and spirit we will sin, If God now for former sin do deny us, or withhold that grace or help which we need to keep us out of it, he is morally and improperly said to cause that sin as a punishment, because that penally he refuseth or forbeareth to save us from it, and so permitteth it (as is said.)
640. The Arminians grossly err, if he cite them justly, Remonst. in Script. Synod. art. 1. p. 202. saying that God may predetermine and pre-ordain the obstinate and rebellious to sin by his penal judgement, and yet those sins are not be reckoned to them for sins, nor increase their guilt: unless the word [sin] be used equivocally: For to have sin and no sin, are contraries. Whether God determine Idiots and Madmen to those acts which would be sin in others, as he doth Brutes, I leave to others.
640. The Arminians grosly erre, if he cite them justly, Remonst. in Script. Synod. art. 1. p. 202. saying that God may predetermine and pre-ordain the obstinate and rebellious to sin by his penal judgement, and yet those sins are not be reckoned to them for sins, nor increase their guilt: unless the word [sin] be used equivocally: For to have sin and no sin, are contraries. Whether God determine Ideots and Madmen to those acts which would be sin in others, as he doth Bruits, I leave to others.