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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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Here note, that 1. He taketh not Causa totalis for the same with Solitaria. 2. That he asserteth only, that God causeth the Totum of the Act, but not by a total Causation of it: And that Gods way or sort of Causation is not sufficient to cause it if man concurred not, which they say he freely doth, and could do otherwise.
710. So that these mens way of freeing God from being the cause of sin is like Scotus his; As if (as I before made the similitude) a Father to try his Child's obedience, bids him lift up a Stone, which he cannot do of himself; and the Father holdeth his hand and joineth his strength, yet not ad ultimum posse, but with a purposed restraint so far that if the Child will not put forth his degree of strength, ⟨p. 134⟩it shall not be done. But who can comprehend the ways of Divinè concurse?
710. So that these mens way of freeing God from being the cause of sin is like Scotus his; As if (as I before made the similitude) a Father to try his Childs obedience, bids him lift up a Stone, which he cannot do of himself; and the Father holdeth his hand and joyneth his strength, yet not ad ultimum posse, but with a purposed restraint so far that if the Child will not put forth his degree of strength, ⟨p. 134⟩it shall not be done. But who can comprehend the wayes of Divinè concurse?
711. And it is to be noted, that when Aureolus argueth, that [if God immediately concur, either he determineth mans act, or man determineth Gods act, or neither; which are all absurd:] here Biel citeth Scotus as holding the third, and answering Neither, as no absurdity. But Greg. Arim. that seemeth to go higher, yet saith, [