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The Protestant religion truly stated and justified by the late Reverend Mr. Richard BaxterThe Protestant religion truely stated and justified by the late Reverend Mr. Richard Baxter
The Protestant religion truly stated and justified by the late Reverend Mr. Richard Baxter ; prepared for the press some time before his death ; whereunto is added, by way of preface, some account of the learned author, by Mr. Daniel Williams and Mr. Matthew Sylvester.The Protestant religion truely stated and justified by the late Reverend Mr. Richard Baxter ; prepared for the press some time before his death ; whereunto is added, by way of preface, some account of the learned author, by Mr. Danel Williams and Mr. Matthew Sylvester.
London: printed for John Salusbury, 1692
Protestant Religion Truly Stated, and Justified, &c. › The Eighteenth accused Point.
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.
4. There is no Moral good done by any man, which was not his Duty, and Gods Law commanded not: For Gods Law is perfect, and therefore obligeth to all Moral good: And as Sin is the Transgression of the Law, so Moral good is the conform Obedience to the Law.
5. God hath not Counsels to Moral action, which are not obliging Laws, and make not our Duty. For to keep them is Moral good, and the Law were imperfect if it obliged not to all such good. If the ⟨p. 78⟩Counsel oblige ut norma officii, it's a Law: If it oblige not, it's vain.
6. But there are many actions that are neither Commanded, nor Counselled, nor forbidden: But those are not Moral actions, as being no objects of our Choosing or Refusing by Reasons Conduct. The nictus oculorum, our Breathing, our Pulse, the Circulation of the Blood, &c. are no Moral acts, Commanded or forbidden, but necessitated: Man maketh it no act of deliberation and choice, which Foot he shall set forward first, or just how many Steps he shall go in a Day; which of two equal Eggs he shall Eat, and an hundred such. These are neither Duty nor Sin, Commanded, nor Counselled, nor forbidden; neither virtuous or vicious.