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An end of doctrinal controversies which have lately troubled the churches
An end of doctrinal controversies which have lately troubled the churches by reconciling explication without much disputing. Written by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for John Salusbury, 1691
Chapter 7: Of God's Providence, and predetermining Premotion and Miracles.
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.
§. 4. From this fundamental Relation of CREATOR, and the nature of the Creature made (and continued by Conservation, which is a continued Creation or Efficiency) there resulteth a threefold Right and further Relation to God. 1. A Jus Dominii, or Right of PROPRIETY, and so he is our OWNER, and may do with all things what he will, and must be the disposer of Events. 2. His Jus Imperii (including Doctrine) or Right of Government; which to things merely Natural is Natural Government, and to Moral Agents it is Moral Government, by Doctrine, Laws and Executions: And so he is our KING or RULER. 3. His Jus Amoris ut finis; ⟨p. 72⟩or Right to be the end of all, and by the Rati• nal Creature to be chiefly Loved, and absolutely for Himself, as the Best and most Amiable, and so he is our ultimate END: Where LOVE is considered not only as an act of Obedience to a Rector as all other duties are; but eminently as it is the final perfective Act of man, closing with the final Object, and so above the common nature of mere Obedience.
§. 4. From this fundamental Relation of CREATOR, and the nature of the Creature made (and continued by Conservation, which is a continued Creation or Efficiency) there resulteth a threefold Right and further Relation to God. 1. A Ius Dominii, or Right of PROPRIETY, and so he is our OWNER, and may do with all things what he will, and must be the disposer of Events. 2. His Ius Imperii (including Doctrine) or Right of Government; which to things meerly Natural is Natural Government, and to Moral Agents it is Moral Government, by Doctrine, Laws and Executions: And so he is our KING or RULER. 3. His Ius Amoris ut finis; ⟨p. 72⟩or Right to be the end of all, and by the Rati• nal Creature to be chiefly Loved, and absolutely for Himself, as the Best and most Amiable, and so he is our ultimate END: Where LOVE is considered not only as an act of Obedience to a Rector as all other duties are; but eminently as it is the final perfective Act of man, closing with the final Object, and so above the common nature of meer Obedience.