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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
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.
CHAP. VIII. Of God's causing or not causing Sin.
§. 1. How certainly the Doctrine of the necessity of immediate, efficient, physical, predetermining Premotion, doth make God the principal Cause of all Sin, I have so oft showed, and so fully proved, that I shall here be very short upon that Subject.
§. 1. HOw certainly the Doctrine of the necessity of immediate, efficient, physical, predetermining Premotion, doth make God the principal Cause of all Sin, I have so oft shewed, and so fully proved, that I shall here be very short upon that Subject.
§. 2. To say, that God is the principal determining Cause of every sinful act with all its Objects and Circumstances (called the materiale peccati) and also the Cause of the Law that forbiddeth it, and the Person that committeth it, is to make him ⟨p. 83⟩the chief Cause of Sin, as far as it is capable of a Cause, even of the formal Cause.
§. 3. To say, That such a Cause is the Cause only of the Act, but not of the Obliquity, is absurd; because the obliquity is a Relation necessarily resulting from the Law and Act with all its modes and circumstances: And the obliquity can have no other Cause.