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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.
And yet on the other side, Do not the sins of them that love God, deserve death and misery, according to his Law? And might he not inflict that on men which they deserve? Doth not Justice require punishment on them,1 that yet sin not away the Love of God, nor a state of Holiness? To this some answer, that all those that consist with Love and Holiness, are Venial sins, which deserve only temporal chastisement, and not perpetual misery: I rather answer,2 1. That all sin considered in it self, abstracted from the Cause which counterbalanceth it, and procureth pardoning mercy, doth deserve perpetual misery; and therefore so do the sins of the Best in themselves considered: But that Grace which causeth their Sanctification, and their Love to God,3 doth conjunctly cause the pardon of their sins; so that God will not deal with such as in rigour they deserve. 2. And if the sin of any that Love God, should provoke him to cast them into Hell, it followeth not, that one that loveth God in sensu composito, should be damned: For God hath an Order in his Punishments: And first he would withdraw his Grace from such a one, and leave him to himself; and then he will no longer Love God; and so it is not a Lover of God that would be damned.
And yet on the other side, Do not the sins of them that love God, deserve death and misery, according to his Law? And might he not inflict that on men which they deserve? Doth not Justice require punishment on them,1 that yet sin not away the Love of God, nor a state of Holiness? To this some answer, that all those that consist with Love and Holiness, are Venial sins, which deserve only temporal chastisement, and not perpetual misery: I rather answer,2 1. That all sin considered in it self, abstracted from the Cause which counterballanceth it, and procureth pardoning mercy, doth deserve perpetual misery; and therefore so do the sins of the Best in themselves considered: But that Grace which causeth their Sanctification, and their Love to God,3