A26923:415
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.
§. 15. The common Objection is, that their [Guilt would be greater on us towards the End of the World, than on them at the Beginning, because all our Ancestors Guilt would be ours: But I answer, 1. If it were so, it would be but many Obligations to the same Punishment, when it amounteth to that which God seeth our Nature capable of: For a Finite Worm is not capable of more Suffering than is proportioned to his Nature. 2. And this Objection vainly supposeth, that none of our Ancestors Sins were pardoned: Whereas all are pardoned to the Faithful and their Seed, and much Temporal Punishment is pardoned to many of the Unsanctified: And God himself by limiting it to the third and fourth Generation, seemeth to set bounds to his own Justice. 3. And the Guilt of our Parents Sins being of a more Diminute Nature ⟨p. 96⟩[…] ⟨p. 85⟩[…] ⟨p. 86⟩than that of our own Actual Sin (Coeteris paribus) it falleth not so fully on us, as it did on the Committers themselves, nor as our own do. 4. And God offereth us the full pardon of our own and all together: And as long as the Law which tells us of our desert of punishment, doth also give us a free pardon, we have no Cause to complain.
§. 15. The common Objection is, that their [Guilt would be greater on us towards the End of the World, than on them at the Beginning, because all our Ancestours Guilt would be ours: But I answer, 1. If it were so, it would be but many Obligations to the same Punishment, when it amounteth to that which God seeth our Nature capable of: For a Finite Worm is not capable of more Suffering than is proportioned to his Nature. 2. And this Objection vainly supposeth, that none of our Ancestours Sins were pardoned: Whereas all are pardoned to the Faithful and their Seed, and much Temporal Punishment is pardoned to many of the Unsanctified: And God himself by limiting it to the third and fourth Generation, seemeth to set bounds to his own Justice. 3. And the Guilt of our Parents Sins being of a more Diminute Nature ⟨p. 96⟩〈…〉 ⟨p. 85⟩