A26886:828
Certain disputations of right to sacraments, and the true nature of visible Christianity defending…
Certain disputations of right to sacraments, and the true nature of visible Christianity defending them against several sorts of opponents, especially against the second assault of that pious, reverend and dear brother Mr. Thomas Blake / by Richard Baxter ...
London: printed by R.W. for Nevil Simmons, 1658
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.
The term [Ungodly) is it that needeth the most wary and ⟨p. 249⟩exact Explication, as on which the greatest stress of the Controversy doth depend. It is not one only sense in which the words [Greek or Hebrew], Pius & Impius, Godly and Ungodly, are used. Some think that Pius comes from an obsolete Greek word, now diffused, [Greek or Hebrew], to which [Greek or Hebrew] & [Greek or Hebrew] do refer; and so that the primary signification is of one that worships God wi•h the Fat of Sacrifice, as Abel did, with the best of his service and not the refuse or lean. Meliùs ad rem fuerit, saith Mertinius [Pius derivare à [Greek or Hebrew], quod Cretensibus est Deus, ex [Greek or Hebrew]: quia pius est qui Deo addictus est & devotus, eumque sequitur; ut Angli Pium Godly, tanquam Divinum. Ità Objectum Pii indicaretur. Si ad actum respiciamus, idonra originatio erit [Greek or Hebrew], quippe quae est vox religiosae operationis.] Vide plura ibid. Our English word [Godly] is the most clear for Etymology and sense; And for the right understanding of it, we must consider, 1. What God is, and in what Relation to Man he stands. 2. What is required from Man towards God.
The term [Ungodly) is it that needeth the most wary and ⟨p. 249⟩exact Explication, as on which the greatest stress of the Controversie doth depend. It is not one only sense in which the words 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, Pius & Impius, Godly and Ungodly, are used. Some think that Pius comes from an obsolete Greek word, now difused, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, to which 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 & 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 do refer; and so that the primary signification is of one that worships God wi•h the Fat of Sacrifice, as Abel did, with the best of his service and not the refuse or lean. Meliùs ad rem fuerit, saith Mertinius [Pius derivare à 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, quod Cretensibus est Deus, ex : quia pius est qui Deo addictus est & devotus, eumque sequitur; ut Angli Pium Godly, tanquam Divinum. Ità Objectum Pii indicaretur. Si ad actum respiciamus, idonra originatio erit , quippe quae est vox religiosae operationis.] Vide plura ibid. Our English word [Godly] is the most clear for Etymology and sense; And for the right understanding of it, we must consider, 1. What God is, and in what Relationn to Man he stands. 2. What is required from Man towards God.