A26923:365
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.
§. 6. They that say, That God willeth the Existence of Sin, as it is sum conducibile, to the Glory of his Justice and Mercy, (yea, and that per se, and not only per accidens) do wrong the Glory of God's Holiness and Wisdom. A Physician can love his own skill, and compassion, and the honour that cometh to him by curing a Disease, without loving or willing the Disease it self, but only supposing it as an Evil which he can turn to Good.
§. 6. They that say, That God willeth the Existence of Sin, as it is summe conducibile, to the Glory of his Justice and Mercy, (yea, and that per se, and not only per accidens) do wrong the Glory of God's Holiness and Wisdom. A Physician can love his own skill, and compassion, and the honour that cometh to him by curing a Disease, without loving or willing the Disease it self, but only supposing it as an Evil which he can turn to Good.
§. 7. They that say, That God is the Cause indeed of our Sin, but is no Sinner himself, because he is under no Law, say nothing in the latter but what all grant, and nothing in the former but what ⟨p. 82⟩[…] ⟨p. 83⟩[…] ⟨p. 84⟩God's Church doth commonly abhor, excepting some few singular presumers.
§. 7. They that say, That God is the Cause indeed of our Sin, but is no Sinner himself, because he is under no Law, say nothing in the latter but what all grant, and nothing in the former but what ⟨p. 82⟩〈…〉 ⟨p. 83⟩〈…〉