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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.
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.
An. 1. The promise to Adam is very obscure: But Happiness it must needs be, and everlasting: 2. But it is past my reach to conceive how the Spirit of God can fix man in perfect holiness without any fixing quality (as it's called) on his Soul. A constant Act the Soul must have: And 1. If that Act be caused by any Divine Impulse, disposing the Soul so to act, then that disposition is a quality. 2. And if there be not both disposition and habit, then the Soul will not in Glory be habitually, or qualitatively holy, but only actually. 3. And a habit-acting being perfecter than an act without a habit (or inclination) the Soul will be more imperfect in Glory, than in this state of Grace. 4. Operari sequitur esse: God fitteth all his Creatures to their works. And as when he will give Immortality, he will give a Nature fit for Immortality, even indissoluble and incorruptible; so when he giveth perpetuity of Love, he giveth a nature or habits fit for perpetual Action. Christ saith, A good Tree bringeth forth good fruit, and an evil Tree evil fruit: Make the Tree good, and his fruit good. 5. The Operations of Love in Glory, should be ex potentia aut violentia, aut neutra, if there were no intrinsic disposition or inclination to them. In a word, it is a contradiction, for a Soul to be perfectly holy, and not have the perfection of inclination to its Acts.
An. 1. The promise to Adam is very obscure: But Happiness it must needs be, and everlasting: 2. But it is past my reach to conceive how the Spirit of God can fix man in perfect holiness without any fixing quality (as it's called) on his Soul. A constant Act the Soul must have: And 1. If that Act be caused by any Divine Impulse, disposing the Soul so to act, then that disposition is a quality. 2. And if there be not both disposition and habit, then the Soul will not in Glory be habitually, or qualitatively holy, but only actually. 3. And a habit-acting being perfecter than an act without a habit (or inclination) the Soul will be more imperfect in Glory, than in this state of Grace. 4. Operari sequitur esse: God fitteth all his Creatures to their works. And as when he will give Immortality, he will give a Nature fit for Immortality, even indissoluble and incorruptible; so when he giveth perpetuity of Love, he giveth a nature or habits fit for perpetual Action. Christ saith, A good Tree bringeth forth good fruit, and an evil Tree evil fruit: Make the Tree good, and his fruit good. 5. The Operations of Love in Glory, should be ex potentia aut violentia, aut neutra, if there were no intrinsick disposition or inclination to them. In a word, it is a contradiction, for a Soul to be perfectly holy, and not have the perfection of inclination to its Acts.