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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.
651. Cap. 26. he cometh to plead for Predetermination, and saith p. 385. God predetermineth us (to the Act of hating God) in linea me•• physica, & non morali. Meer delusory words. He maketh it by the Law of Nature a sin to hate him, and then he maketh men hate him •• linea physica & non morali! as if the moral sinfulness resulted not from the Law and act; that is, here from Nature it self, viz. of the Man and act, both which God made.
652. Pag. 386. he saith, that [Directa & expressa & efficax Dei V•litio, qua Vult ut sit seu fiat actus Dei odii, non facit Deum Malitia q•• 1per accidens sequitur actum, authorem.] Resp. But that per accidens is no reason of the denial, if God cause that accident also, as the first cause. If he make a Law, and make the forbidden act, the relation of sinfulness is an Accident indeed, but ariseth from the said fundamentum so necessarily that it cannot be otherwise. But it should have made a holy Divine to tremble to have said, that God directly, expressly and effectually willeth mens Act of hating God, viz. that it exist or be.
652. Pag. 386. he saith, that [Directa & expressa & efficax Dei V•litio, qua Vult ut sit seu fiat actus Dei odii, non facit Deum Malitia q•• 1per accidens sequitur actum, authorem.] Resp. But that per accidens is no reason of the denyal, if God cause that accident also, as the first cause. If he make a Law, and make the forbidden act, the relation of sinfulness is an Accident indeed, but ariseth from the said fundamentum so necessarily that it cannot be otherwise. But it should have made a holy Divine to tremble to have said, that God directly, expresly and effectually willeth mens Act of hating God, viz. that it exist or be.