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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 Second Part. OF GODS GOVERNMENT, AND MORAL WORKS. › A PREMONITION.
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3. M. S. Adam's whole man was sanctified, and so fitted to obey, and to glorify Justice: His free-will was not an indifferency, but (as Gib.) that noble virtue of his Soul, by which he could go above all created good, so that Liberty and Eupraxy or Obedience are all one: But we cannot stir an inch to God, above the Creature. Liberty is to imitate God, whose Will closeth with himself, and resteth in himself for ever: And mutability is but an adjunct of our Liberty.
3. M. S. Adam's whole man was sanctified, and so fitted to obey, and to glorifie Justice: His free-will was not an indifferency, but (as Gib.) that noble virtue of his Soul, by which he could go above all created good, so that Liberty and Eupraxy or Obedience are all one: But we cannot stir an inch to God, above the Creature. Liberty is to imitate God, whose Will closeth with himself, and resteth in himself for ever: And mutability is but an adjunct of our Liberty.
An. I have better opened and distinguished Liberty before, Lib. 1. Natural Liberty is to be distinguished from moral, which you describe; and vehemently assert the former under the name of causa consilio that cannot be forced: But mere indifferency or mutability is no Liberty it self.
An. I have better opened and distinguished Liberty before, Lib. 1. Natural Liberty is to be distinguished from moral, which you describe; and vehemently assert the former under the name of causa consilio that cannot be forced: But meer indifferency or mutability is no Liberty it self.
4. M. S. Adam was not made with notions in his Mind, no more than with colours in his Eyes; but he was made able and fit to see God in the frame of Nature, especially in his own Will, as inclined to universal good—.