A26947:1062
A key for Catholics, to open the juggling of the Jesuits, and satisfy all…A key for Catholicks, to open the jugling of the Jesuits, and satisfie all…
A key for Catholics, to open the juggling of the Jesuits, and satisfy all that are but truly willing to understand, whether the cause of the Roman or reformed churches be of God ... containing some arguments by which the meanest may see the vanity of popery, and 40 detections of their fraud, with directions, and materials sufficient for the confutation of their voluminous deceits ... : the second part showeth (especially against the French and Grotians) that the Catholic Church is not united in any merely humane head, either Pope or council / by Richard Baxter, a Catholic Christian and Pastor of a church ...A key for Catholicks, to open the jugling of the Jesuits, and satisfie all that are but truly willing to understand, whether the cause of the Roman or reformed churches be of God ... containing some arguments by which the meanest may see the vanity of popery, and 40 detections of their fraud, with directions, and materials sufficient for the confutation of their voluminous deceits ... : the second part sheweth (especially against the French and Grotians) that the Catholick Church is not united in any meerly humane head, either Pope or council / by Richard Baxter, a Catholick Christian and Pastor of a church ...
London: printed by R.W. for Nevil Simmons, 1659
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His eleventh Accusation is this [Scripture saith that God taketh away, and blotteth out our iniquity as a cloud: and puts our iniquities far from us, as the East is from the West, and maketh us as white as snow; You say, that he takes not away, nor blotteth out our sin, but only doth not impute it, and doth not make us white as snow, but leaveth in us the fault and uncleanness of sin: which Scripture no where speaks.]
His eleventh Accusation is this [Scripture saith that God taketh away, and blotteth out our iniquity as a cloud: and puts our iniquities far from us, as the East is from the West, and maketh us as white as snow; You say, that he takes not away, nor blotteth out our sin, but only doth not impute it, and doth not make us white as snow, but leaveth in us the fault and uncleaness of sin: which Scripture no where speaks.]
Answ. This is half falsehood, and half confusion, raked up to make a matter of quarrel with. 1. Its false that we say, He doth not take away, nor blot out our sin, nor make us white as snow: Do not all Protestants in the world affirm all this? 2. There are these things here considerable. 1. The Act of sin. 2. The Habit. 3. The guilt, or obligation to punishment. 4. The culpability, ⟨p. 289⟩or reatus culpae. 1. As for the Act, how can you for shame say, that God takes it away, when it is a transient act that is gone of it self as soon as acted, and hath no existence, as Scotus and all your own take notice. 2. As to the Culpability, you will not sure for shame say, that God so put away, e. g. Davids Adultery, as to make it reputable as a virtue, or not a vice. 3. As to the Reatus ad paenam, the full Guilt, we maintain that it is done quite away: and if your eyes be in your head, you may see that it is in regard of this guilt and punishment that the Scriptures mentioned by you speak (or principally speak at least) For I pray you tell us, what else can they mean, when they speak of actual sins that are past long ago, and have no existence. Learned wranglers! would you make us believe, that Grace is given to David to put away the Act of his Murder and Adultery, so that it may be quid praeteritum, & non jam existens? a thing past and gone, which it is without grace? so that when you feign us to say, that God takes not away sin, but only not imputeth it, you feign us to make synonymal terms to be of different senses. He takes them away by not imputing them.