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A Christian Directory
A Christian directory, or, A sum of practical theology and cases of conscience directing Christians how to use their knowledge and faith, how to improve all helps and means, and to perform all duties, how to overcome temptations, and to escape or mortify every sin : in four parts ... / by Richard Baxter.A Christian directory, or, A summ of practical theologie and cases of conscience directing Christians how to use their knowledge and faith, how to improve all helps and means, and to perform all duties, how to overcome temptations, and to escape or mortifie every sin : in four parts ... / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed by Robert White for Nevill Simmons, 1673
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
§. 40. Inst. 2. The special Providence of God, and his being the first Universal cause, are conjunct1 with the culpability of sinners; and no man must put these asunder. Those that cannot see just how they are conjoined, may be sure that they are conjoined. It is no dishonour to an Engineer that he can make a Watch which shall go longer than he is moving it with his finger: Nor is it a dishonour to our Creator, that he can make a Creature which can Morally determine it self to an action as commanded or forbidden, without the predetermination of his Maker, though not without his universal concourse necessary to action as action. If Adam could not do this through the natural impossibility of it, than the Law was, that he should dye the death if he did not overcome God, or do that which was naturally impossible; and this was the nature of his sin. Few dare say, that God cannot make a free self-determining agent: And if he can, we shall easily prove that he hath; and the force of their opposition then is vanished.
§. 40. Inst. 2. The special Providence of God, and his being the first Universal cause, are conjunct1 with the culpability of sinners; and no man must put these asunder. Those that cannot see just how they are conjoyned, may be sure that they are conjoyned. It is no dishonour to an Engineer that he can make a Watch which shall go longer than he is moving it with his finger: Nor is it a dishonour to our Creator, that he can make a Creature which can Morally determine it self to an action as commanded or forbidden, without the predetermination of his Maker, though not without his universal concourse necessary to action as action. If Adam could not do this through the natural impossibility of it, than the Law was, that he should dye the death if he did not overcome God, or do that which was naturally impossible; and this was the nature of his sin. Few dare say, that God cannot make a free self-determining agent: And if he can, we shall easily prove that he hath; and the force of their opposition then is vanished.
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