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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.
The true plain solution is from the two last Considerations. 1. God hath made no Law commanding or forbidding Marriage, or Celibate as such, or in Common. To Marry is no Sin, considered merely as Marriage. 2. But God hath made Laws against hurtful and injurious Marriages, and to guide men to know, when Marrying is a Duty or a Sin. 3. And if any ones case were so neutral, as that it could not be discerned, whether Marrying were a hurt or benefit, it would be no Moral, eligible or refusable action. 4. But to some it is a great Duty by accidents, and to some a great Sin. Therefore Paul never meant that it was no mans duty, and no mans sin, but only that simply as Marriage it was no mans duty or sin, or the matter of a commanding or forbidding Law, but only by accident, it may be such to one more than to another.
The true plain solution is from the two last Considerations. 1. God hath made no Law commanding or forbidding Marriage, or Celibate as such, or in Common. To Marry is no Sin, considered meerly as Marriage. 2. But God hath made Laws against hurtful and injurious Marriages, and to guide men to know, when Marrying is a Duty or a Sin. 3. And if any ones case were so neutral, as that it could not be discerned, whether Marrying were a hurt or benefit, it would be no Moral, eligible or refuseable action. 4. But to some it is a great Duty by accidents, and to some a great Sin. Therefore Paul never meant that it was no mans duty, and no mans sin, but only that simply as Marriage it was no mans duty or sin, or the matter of a commanding or forbidding Law, but only by accident, it may be such to one more than to another.
That this is Pauls meaning, the Papists must confess. For 1. Do not they say that the Marriage of Priests, Friars and Nuns are Sin? 2. If any one Marry an Infidel, or utterly unsuitable Person, without necessity, against Parents wills, ⟨p. 80⟩or one that is impotent, or hath the Pox, or that he cannot maintain, &c.? Is not this a heinous Sin? What else signify Gods Law, and mans, against unlawful Marriages.