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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.
§. 12. •t cannot rationally be expected, that they that believe that God is the chief Cause and Willer of all Sin, should think it very bad, or themselves bad for it; or that when God hath unresistibly made all men to sin, he yet hateth it, and sent his Son into the World to testify his Hatred by dying for it; and that he is serious in ⟨p. 86⟩all that he saith against it in his word: nor that such men should hate it, and rather die than sin.
§. 12. •t cannot rationally be expected, that they that believe that God is the chief Cause and Willer of all Sin, should think it very bad, or themselves bad for it; or that when God hath unresistibly made all men to sin, he yet hateth it, and sent his Son into the World to testifie his Hatred by dying for it; and that he is serious in ⟨p. 86⟩all that he saith against it in his word: nor that such men should hate it, and rather die than sin.
§. 13. Therefore as the Church of God hath ever abhorred to make God the Cause of Sin, and kept up the sense of the Evil of Sin, (for our hatred of it, and departing from it, and our Humiliation) as a necessary part of our Religion, so must we resolutely do still; or else we shall be worse than the Light of Nature teacheth Heathens themselves to be.
§. 13. Therefore as the Church of God hath ever abhorred to make God the Cause of Sin, and kept up the sence of the Evil of Sin, (for our hatred of it, and departing from it, and our Humiliation) as a necessary part of our Religion, so must we resolutely do still; or else we shall be worse than the Light of Nature teacheth Heathens themselves to be.