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Richard Baxter's Catholic theology plain, pure, peaceable, for pacification of the dogmatical word-warriors who,…Richard Baxter's Catholick theologie plain, pure, peaceable, for pacification of the dogmatical word-warriours who,…
Richard Baxter's Catholic theology plain, pure, peaceable, for pacification of the dogmatical word-warriors who, 1. by contending about things unrevealed or not understood, 2. and by taking verbal differences for real,Richard Baxter's Catholick theologie plain, pure, peaceable, for pacification of the dogmatical word-warriours who, 1. by contending about things unrevealed or not understood, 2. and by taking verbal differences for real,
London: printed by Robert White for Nevill Simmons, 1675
The First Part: OF THE NATURE, KNOWLEDGE, WILL AND DECREES of GOD,… › Section 24: On the other side.
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697. Yea (ordering Gods Decrees after the usual presumption) be 1asserteth, that God first intendeth our blessedness as the end, before he intendeth us grace, faith, &c. as the means: And therefore cannot do it for foreseen faith, &c. Yea, that he first decreed to give us blessedness, before he decreed to create us, as Scotus 3. d. 7. and Ovan•• ibid. q. 3. a. 2. Yea, that God willeth all this, before he knoweth that it will be, as Scotus 1. d. 39. And that seeing all Gods Volitions of giving any good, are free, without any precedent Cause in man, it must needs be that the Decree of glory and not of grace only, must be without Merit. And he concludeth p. 13. that they have no quarrel here with the Doctrine of the Articles of the Church of England.
- 1Ruiz de Praedefin. tr. 2. disp. 6. sect. 2. p. 86, 87. Deus pro suo beneplacito decrevit ab aeterno efficaciter causare liberas operations honestas prius ratione quam illas praevideret ut absolute futuras—Unde infallibiliter sequitur liberi arbitrii operatio (necessitate consequentiae:) Pag. 87. 1. Scriptura fidem, sanctitatem & quodlibet discrimen sanctorum à reprobis, reducit ad electionem gratuitam: 2. Ex vi sortis, &c. 3. Divina electio absque meritis est causa quae discernit justos ab impiis. Quamvis (n) liberum arbitrium sit secundaria causa s•ipsum discernens, qua potuit resistere vel consentire—Haec tamen liberi arbitrii cooperatio revocatur in Deum ut in primariam causam suaviter praedefinientem. E• Tr. 3. d. 18. sect. 3. p. 222. Ea merita nihil obsun• quidditati gratiae quae tanquam ex prima radic• nascuntur ex prima gratid data absque ullo prorsus merito: At•amen quodlibet etiam levissimum & remotissimum meritum de congruo, si ex illo nascitur prima gratia, vel propter illud datur, obesse quidditati gratiae: Yea, he addeth p. 223. Conditio, ratio, vel occasio prorsus separata à merito, impetratione & disposition, adhuc repugnaret (primae) gratiae: quoniam adhuc maneret debitum connaturalitatis, quamvis abesset debitum obsequy.