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The reasons of the Christian religion the first part, of godliness, proving by natural…
The reasons of the Christian religion the first part, of godliness, proving by natural evidence the being of God ... : the second part, of Christianity, proving by evidence supernatural and natural, the certain truth of the Christian belief ... / by Richard Baxter ... ; also an appendix defending the soul's immortality against the Somatists or Epicureans and other pseudo-philosophers.
London: printed by R. White for Fran. Titon, 1667
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.
Answ. True: he is not unable: And so he could make every clod a tree, and every tree a beast, and every beast a man, and every man an Angel, as I said before: but must he therefore do it?
Here note, that it is one thing to say of any Punishment, [This is so deserved, that God may inflict it if he please, without Injustice, yea and thereby demonstrate his Justice;] and another thing to say [This is so due that God must or will inflict it, if he will be just; unless a compensation be made to Justice.] It is of the first sort that I am now speaking: For God may have variety of times, and measures, and kinds of Punishments, which he may use at his own choice, and yet not leave the sin unpunished finally: But whether he properly dispense with any Law, which is determinate as to the penalty, I am not now to speak, it being not pertinent to this place and subject.
§. 3. Therefore God doth in some sort and measure, pardon sin to the generality of mankind, while he remitteth some measure of the deserved punishment.
§. 3. Therefore God doth in some sort and measure, pardon sin to the generality of mankinde, while he remitteth some measure of the deserved punishment.